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GEORGE S. SCHMUTZ 



RFCORF) P"*'^'^*^' ^"^- I' l*^2d O. V. I.; enlisted 

. August 2, 1862 at Congress, Wayne Co. 

Ohio: age 16; 3 years; captured Sept. 24, 1864, in action at 
Athens, Ala.; in Cahaba Prison, Ala., from Oct. 5, 1864, to 
March 5; 186ii; exchanged April 22, 1865; survivor of Steam- 
er Sultana, when she exploded her boilers, on the Mississ- 
ippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., April 27, 1865; mustered 
out May 30, 1865, at Camp Chase, Ohio, by order of War 
Department. 



History of the io2d 
Regiment, O. V. I. 




Published and Compiled by 
GEO. S. SCHMUTZ, Co. I 

1907 



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PREFACE 



In writing- a History of the 102d Reg-iment, O. V. I., the writer 
is aware of the immense amount of labor invol/ed; but he is willing- 
to undertake it, because, if not done now, it will never be done. 
Others have attempted it and failed, not from want of encourage- 
ment, but from lack of securing the proper data. This attempt 
will be made with the data at hand, and with the help of comrades 
he hopes to make it as near perfect as possible. 

The writer acknowledges the assistance of Comi-ades E, F. Tag- 
gart, Akron, O., Dr. Geo. Mitchell, Mansfield, O., John Hudson, 
Millersburg-, O., Joe L. Hott, Mansfield, O., Lieut. George McCon- 
nell, Sullivan, O., James Marshall, Ontario, Ohio and othars. 

The writer received the material from Orderly James F. 
Hughes, Mattooon, 111., that was placed in his hands by Comrade 
Florien Guiaque, and was promised his assistance, but before he 
could render such help, he was called no answer the last roll-call, 
and accordingly we miss his assistance. 

The History will contain a complete Roster of the Regiment; a 
history of each company as far as it can be obtanied; a Field and 
Staff history; a history of the Medical Department; a history of 
the Quartermaster's Department, and reminiscences by many 
comrades. 

The compiler of this History wishes to thank all comrades for 
their valuable assistance, and hope thev may be rewarded in know- 
ing that they have assisted in making as good a history as could be 
g-otten up. 

GEORGE S, vSCHMUTZ, 

Compiler. 



SOME CAUSES LEADING TO THE REBELLION 



VER since the adoption of the American Constitution in 1787, 
which recognized the instinution of slavery, but left the 
question entirely with the States, the institution of slavery 
was a matter of contention between the North and South. 

Slavery wa« in operation io most of the states of the Union, but 
g-radually it was abolished in all of the States except those of the 
South. Then the bone of contention was the extension of slavery 
into the territories. The North opposed such extention and the 
South advocated it. No political party acutally advocated the en- 
lire abolition of slavery, but many compromises were effected. A 
great contention arose at the admission of nearly every State on 
the extention of slavery. The admission of Missouri in 1850 was 
brought about by the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, which 
admitted Missouri as a slave State, but prohibited slavery north 
of a certain degree north latitude. 

Now came the great question of the extention of slavery in the 
territories. The South claimed the right for a slaveholder to 
take his slaves into a territory and that he could not be molested 
by the General Government. The North contended that the Con- 
stitution did not permit slavery in any territory until the territory 
was admitted as a State, and then the question was to be submitted 
to the vote of the people ot thai territory. 

Up to the political campaign of 1860 no serious difficulty was 
anticipated, but the trouble was brought near by the split in the 
Democratic party in their National Convention of 1860 at Charles- 
ton, S. C. The Northern Democrats, after the Southern delegates 
had withdrawn from the Convention, nominated Stephen A. Doug- 
las, of 111., and the Southern Democrats adjourned to Baltimore, 
Maryland, and nominated John C. Breckenridge. of Ky. 

The Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, of 111. The Re- 
publican platiorm did not attack the institution of slavery in the 
States where it already existed, but strongly contended against 
the further extention into the territories. The election of Abra- 
ham Lincoln was the result of the great political conflict. 

The hot-headed vSoutherners would not submit to the rule of the 



people, and nearly all the slave States seceded by the act of the 
several States, led by South Carolina. These acts of secession 
was mostly accomplished before the inauguration of Lincoln on 
March 4, 1861. 

Thus, in short, was the great conflict of the Rebellion brought 
on, and was the means of calling into existence the organization of 
the 102d Regiment, O. V. I., of which this will be a history of their 
services, their marches, their battles and languishing in Southern 
prison pens. 



FIRING UPON FORT SUM PIER. 

Great excitement was caused in the North at the news of the 
firing on Ft. Sumpter early in 1861, and at the call of the Presi- 
dent for 75,000 volunteers, the Northern boys responded to the 
call, and in a short time the call way filled, and soldiers were soon 
on the march into Virginia. 

The following is the call of the Governor of Ohio for her quota 
of 300,000 soldiers called for by President Lincoln. 

ExKCUTivE Office, Columbus, Ohio, ) 
July 3, 1862. \ 

Fellow Citizens: Another appeal to your patriotism has be- 
come necessary. The enemies of our Government, now assembled 
at Richmond in hostile array, largely outnumbered any disposable 
forces at the President's command. 

The army under General McClellan has been driven back, mere- 
ly by ihe force of overwhelming numbers rnpidly concentrated 
there. 

Additional forces are alone necessary to hold the important po- 
sitions already gained and speedily crush the rebellion aL all 
points. 

Liberally and gallantly as Ohio has heretofore responded to the 
calls of the President, he has ever been assured, and he has but 
to know that further aid was needed from us, to insure a prompt 
answer to any further calls he might make upon us. This knowl- 
edge we now have, and the call has also been 'nade. 



And now, citizens of Ohio, one and all, shall the call be respond- 
ed to? Something' whispers me that, with one voice, 3'ou say it 
shall be answered. 

Arouse, then, and let every man be able to say that he has done 
his duty 

There is work for all to do. The aged can stimulate the young; 
the wealthy contribute to the wants and necessities of the desti- 
tute; and the ladies, who have already done so much and whose 
kind hearts which will prompt them in the continuance of their 
work, can encourage by their noble example both old and young- 
in the performance of their noble duty. What is wealth or even 
life worth, if, to preserve either, we have to confess to the world 
that .ve are not able to maintain our glorious government. 

Gallant and noble recruiting officers, for the organization of new 
regiments and the filling up of those .already in the field, will be 
appointed in all portions of the State and specific instructions given 
them. 

The enlistments will be for three years or during the war. 

I cannot at this time indicate the number of troops wanted from 
Ohio, but can safely say that the Government A^ill accept all who 
may ofter themselves within the coming forty days. 

Promptness and vigiJlance are indispensable. Forty thousand 
recruits within the time indicated would be of more service than 
twice that number at a later period. 

The gallant men of the State may rely upon my best endeavors 
to discharge the highly responsible duties devolving upon me 
with an eye single to the preservation of our Government, and 
with the sincere hope and belief that, Nvhen the struggle of life is 
over, my children can claim for me an honest and faithful per- 
formance of duty. 

Invoking the smiles of our Heavenly Father upon our good 
work, 

I am your humble servant, 

DAVID TODD, Governor. 



OFFICERS OF THE io2d REGIMENT O. V, I. 

In accordanc with the request of the Governor, the Military 
Commission of Ashland, Wayne and Richland, met in Wooster, 
on Tuesday, July 15, 1862, to determine what gentlemen should be 
nominated for appointment as officers of the 102p Regiment. 



Judge Wm. Given, of Wooster was named for Colonel, and Mr. 
George H. Topping-, of Ashland, Major. The nomination of 
Lieut. Colonel was referred to the Military Committee of Holmes, 
which was not present. Mr. John W. Burkman, of Richland was 
recommended for Adjutant. Rev. Hugh L, Parrish, Chaplain; Mr. 
W. R. Bricker, Surgeon, and Mr. George Mitchell, as Assistant 
Sursreon. 



JUDGE WM. GIVEN FOR COLONEL 

The nomination of Judge Wm. Given for Colonel of the 102^' 
Regiment, to be raised in Richland, Holmes, Ashland and Wa\ '■ 
will give great satisfactio''j. The Judge is well known through v 
the counties as a brave man and a perfect gentleman, who is de- 
voted heart and soul to the cause of the Union. If the Judge re- 
ceives a Colonel's commission we are confident the regiment ^vip i-e 
far more easily raised than it would be if any other gentleman re- 
ceived the appointment. 



RECRUITING FOR THE io2d REGIMENT. 

Officers for the three companies to be raised in Wayne county 
have been commissioned as follows, and are now recruiting: 
Captain— J. P. Stout. 
First Lieutenant — Silais P. Kenton. 
Second Lieutenant Harrison H. Rowe. Known as Co. F. 

Captain — James H. Robison. 

First Lieutenant — Jesse Y. Ross. 

Second Lieutenant — Benton Beerbower. Known as Co. I. 

Captain — Jonas D. Elliott. 

First Lieutenant — Edward W. Bradley. 

Second Lieutenant. — James McNulty. Known asCo. H. 

The following is taken from a Wooster paper relative to the re. 
cruiting of the Wayne companies: 

Captain Stout's Company. 

Captain John Stout, with a company of one hundred and twenty 



men, reported at Mansfield Friday, Aug-ust 7. The thanks of our 
citizens are due to Captain Stout, and the officers associated with 
him, for their energies in recruting^, having- given to Old Wayne 
the honor of reporting the first full company for the regiment to 
be commanded by Colonel Given. 

Captain Elliott's Company. 

The company of Captain Elliott's numbering one hundred and 
thirty men reported a few hours after Captain Stout's was full. 
The officers of this company deserve great credit for the energies 
displayed by them in recruiting. Lieut. Bradley especially de- 
serves praise, as he labored with the most indefatigable industry 
t(> fill up the ranks of the company. 

Captain Robison's Company. 

Captain Robison's company is ready to go into camp. The 
company was full shortly a:ter Elliott's, and we understand the 
Military Commission prohibits Captain Robison and his officers 
from enlisting after they had the names of about sne hundred and 
fifteen men on their rolls. 



OFF FOR CAMP MANSFIELD. 

Three companies of Wayne county volunteers left Wooster Wed- 
nesday August 20th, 1862 for Camp Mansfield, the rendezvous of 
Col. Given's regiment. An immense crowd of citizens were at the 
depot, and the boys departed from their homes amid the hearty 
cheers of their friends and with the best wishes o: every loyal 
heart in Old Wayne. 



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PRESENTATION OF HORSE TO COLONEL GIVEN 

As will be seen by the correspondence which lollovvs, Mr. Cham- 
pion R. Kinney, of Canaan township, lately presented Colonel 
Given, of the 102d Regiment, with a beautiful horse. Such marked 
liberality is commendable, and it could not have been put to a better 
use than it has been by Mr. Kinney — that of paying- to Col. Given, 
who has made many and great sacrifices in following the noble 
impulses of his patriotism. 

Canaan, O., August 16, 1862. 

Col. Wm. Given— Dear Sir: Permit me, as your friend, to ex- 
press to you in this note, my admiration of t'jat patriotic impulse 
of yours by which you have been induced to exchange your distin- 
guished and lucrative position, as an incumbent of the Judicial 
Bench, for the toils and dangers of the weary marches and bloody 
battle fields, which rise in prospect before you. 

I can assure you, from my knowledge of the sentiments of your 
numerous friends, professional and unprofessional, that while 
your departure from the sphere of your past usefulness, in the 
Law, is a subject ot common regret, there is a universal apprecia- 
tion of the self-sacrificing and gallant spirit which dictates your 
course. May success attend you and the honors and distinction 
of the field, which I am sure you will win in the support of 3'our 
country's cause in this time of its grief and peril, be added to 
your well-won civil honors. 

As you are about to depart to the field of your military labors, I 
beg you to accept, as a testimony of my regard for and confidence 
in you, the horse which I send you with the bearer of this note. I 
believe that upon his back you will find yourself as well mounted 
as any of your compeers or enemies, and that by his various qual- 
ities he will be found adapted, as a war horse, to all the uses to 
which you will need to put him. 

Permit me to enjoy the pleasure of the reflection that this small 
present to you will also inure, in its effect, as the contribution of a 
citizen's mite to the glorious cause of the Union. 
Respectfully your friend, 

CHAMPION R. KINNEY. 



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COLONEL GIVEN'S REPLY. 

WoosTicK, O., Aug-ust 16, 1862. 

Champion R. Kinnky, Esq.. — Yonr note and the splendid horse 
you so generously presented to me were received to-day. You 
will please accept ray most profound thanks for the very kind 
sentiments of your letter. In my career on the Bench, I endeav- 
ored to do my duty, and yet, teeling- conscious that I often failed, 
(for " to err is human,") it is g-ratlfying- to read such sentiments 
of approval from one whose g-ood opinion I so highly esteem, and 
whose many acts of personal kindness, heretofore, give full assur- 
ance of sincerity now. 

Your present of the beautiful and powerful horse lays me under 
a debt of gratitude which will never be forgotten while memory 
lasts. I appreciate it for its intrinsic value, and because it came 
from a reliable friend, and an honorable and irenerous neighbor, 
but above all, for that true and active patriotism which prompted 
your act, for I will not do you the injustice to regard it as a gift 
exclusively to myself, but as a donation to the service of the coun- 
try, in this hour of its necessities and trials, which justly entitles 
you to the regard of every friend of the glorious cause to which 
you have so liberally contributed. Rest assured, I shall do my 
best to employ the gift for the purpose you intended it, and in so 
doing, my highest hope is, that I may render our good and beloved 
Government some useful service, in aiding to overcome and crush 
out the most causeless, corrupt and wicked rebellion that ever 
blackened the history of our race. Myself and the horse shall be 
devoted to the cause of the Union until either we, or treason shall 
go down. 

With my best wishes for your prosperity and happineas of 
yourself and excellent family, I remain, yours truly. 

WM. GIVEN. 

THE COLONEL'S HORSE STOLEN. 

In this connection it may be well here to state that this beautiful 
horse was stolen at Clarksville, Tenn., by some supposed rebel 
bushwhackers and never was recovered, though everv effort was 
made, but of no avail. 

Constant Markle Co. I and another comrade, dressed in citizenv^ 
clothes, traced the horse for twenty-five miles and finally thought 



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they had located him in a hollow, and reported the case to a force 
of abort 75 cavalrymen, who were afraid to go down from fear of 
an ambush. 

The Colonel was compelled to fall back on his "shell-bark" pony, 
which had so well sustained the Colonel's hostler Sam Mann. 

The Editor. 



ORGANIZATION OF COMPANIES B 
AND K, io2d O. V. I. 



THE C^LL 



Two Hundred Recruits Wanted tor the io2d 

125 Dollars Bounty. Recruiting Office Over the Times Office 

Men of Ashland county, your country is in great danger and is 
calling- on you for assistance ! Shall it be given? The time of 
self-government is about to be solved. Are you willing to hear it 
pronounced a failure? If not, come to its support. Every one 
should take this appeal home to himself, not asking which one of 
my neighbors can go, but can I go myself? What can I do to assist 
the Government that has protected my life and my property, 
and then do what you can. Will you stand idly by and see the 
Government for which your fathers died, fall to pieces and not 
lend a helping hand to save it? Do you think it worth saving? Let 
every man, woman and child in the country go to work earnestly 
and faithfully for the cause. Let every one that cannot go him«elf 
procure a substitute, but volunteer if you can, and do so immediate- 
ly. In this wav our quota will soon be filled, and we will escape the 



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proposed drafting- and its attending disgrace. We are expected 
to furnish troops for the 102d Regiment now being organized at 
Camp Mansfield, Ohio, and the required number must be raised 
either by 

VOLUNTEERING OR DRAFTING. 

The enlistment will be for three years or during the vvar, unless 
otherwise discharged. Each recruit will be clothed, subsisted 
and draw pay from the date of enlistment. As soon as a company 
is formed eacJa recruit will receive $25.00 of his bounty 
money from the Government, $25.00 from the Millitary Commit- 
tee, and one month's pay in advance, making in all $65.00. At the 
end of the war he will be entitled to the remaining $75.00 of his 
$100.00 bounty and 80 acres of land. 

JOHN McNAUL, W. A. BEER, 

J. R. FOLWELL. M. J. SLOAN, 

HOLIDAY AMES, Recruiting Officers, Co. K. 

Recruiting Officers, Co. B. 



ASHLAND COUNTY MILITARY COMMITTEE. 

The following citizens compose the Military Committee of this 
Ashland county: 

Geo. H. Topping, Chairman, John D. Jones, 
W. H. H. Potter, W. A. Roller, 

John Scott, Jr., H. Ames, 

L. Jeff Sprengle. 
Application for recruiting in this county must be made to this 
committee. 



MILITARY AND PERSONAL 

On Tuesday (July 14, 1862,) the County Military Committee of 
this Military district composed of Ashland, Holmes, Richland and 



Wayne met at Wooster to transact business in reference to the 
102d Regiment required to be raised in this district. The work 
has been g-one into with vigor, and as a worthy member of the 
Wayne county committee remarked, "those who are not prepared 
to bleed at the nose must be prepared to bleed at the pocket," a good 
suggestion. Let every loyal man who loves his country above 
party, prepare himself to make sacrifices either by going into the 
service himself, or furnish the money for liberal bounties to those 
who will go. We have no time to delay in this work ; let every 
man feel himself called upon to rally to the support of the Govern- 
ment. The meeting recommended as regimental officers, Hon- 
Nm. Given, of Wayne, for Colonel; , of Holmes, Lieut. Colo- 
nel; George H. Topping, of Ashland, Major; Hugh L. Parrish, of 
Richland, as Chaplain. The other officers were not named. J. D. 
Jones and John Scott, Jr.. were appointed members of the Regi- 
mental District Committee, to whom all communications in refer- 
ence to regimental appointments from this TAshland) county must 
be addressed. 



OFF FOR CAMP MANSFIELD 

All volunteers for the two companies now organizing in Ashland 
county are required to meet at Ashland on Monday evening or 
Tuesday morning next (August 18 or 19, 1862.) prepared to start 
for camp at Mansfield by 9 o'clock of that morning. 

By order of 

Recruiting Officers. 



ORGANIZATION OF COMPANIES A 
ANDG, ic2d O. V. I. 



From the Tlolmes County Farmer we notice the first mention of 
Co. A, Captain Huston. 

Judcre Huston has been commissioned a Captain to recruit a 



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company in this county, and will proceed to work immediately. 
The Judge is so well and favorably known that we apprehend 
bis company will be quickly filled. 

CAPTAIN HUSTON'S COMPANY 

John Castor and John Eberhardt have been commissioned for 
Lieutenants in Capt. Huston's company. They are both g-ood 
men. 

A HANDSOME OFFER 

A g-entleman in Mansfield offers a bounty of one hundred dollars 
to the first company in camp for the 102d Regiment. We would 
be pleased to see the Holmes county boys take that pile. 



ATTENTION 



Captain Harpster will be in Napoleon on Saturday, August 2, to 
recruit soldiers for the 102d Regiment, O. V. I. 



FOR CAMP. 

August 14. The camp at Mansfield is not yet in order to receive 
the volunteers of the 102d Regiment. Fifteen men of each com- 
pany are detailed to go to Mansfield to-day to aid in fixing up the 
barracks. The remaining volunteers will leave here on Tuesday 
next. 

OUR COMPANIES ARE FULL. 

Holmes county has promptly responded to the call of the Gov- 
ernment. Capt. Huston's company is full, so also is Capt. Harp- 
ster's. They, however, will accept a few more men. 

OFF FOR CAMP. 

The companies raised in this, Holmes, county for the 102d Reg- 



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iment will leave on the noon train to-day (Aug-ust 24) for Camp 
Mansfield. We wish all the men a profitable and pleasant time 
and a safe return. 



ORGANIZATION OF COMPANIES C, 
D AND E, io2d O. V. I. 



COMPANY D. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. M. L. Miller, we arc permitted to 
give an account of the organization of Co, D. Mr. Zoda and Mr. 
Woolf were in the employ of Mr. Miller, who was anxious to have 
his employes take important positions in his country's defense. 
Mr. Miller made a trip to Columbus and secured commissions for 
Mr. Zoda and Mr. vVoolf. Zoda and Woolf went to svork to recruit 
a company, and met with inditferent success, until Mr. Miller 
also took a hand at the work. He offered ever}' man who enlisted 
in the company a five dollar bill. Mr. Miller was very pi-operly 
regarded as the "father" of Co. D. At one meeting, they secured 
twent}' names and Mr. Miller planked down $100. 

Company D went into camp at Mansfield with the following offi- 
cers: 

Captain — Aaron E. Zoda, died Feb. 21, 1865, at Louisville, Ky., 
of wounds received Sept. 24, 1864. in action at Athens, Ala. 

Captain^ — William H. McMonigal, promoted from 1st Lieutenant 
and Adjutant, April 8, 1865. 

1st Lieutenant — Gaylord Thomas, resigned Feb. 18, 1865. 

1st Lieutenant — (justavus Woolf, promoted from 2d Lieutenant. 

2d Lieutenant — James P. Douofal. 



COMPANY C. 



Company C was raised principally in Mansfield and the immedi- 
ate vicinity by the efforts of George H. Bowman, William C. Scott 
and others. The company went into Camp Mansfield oflRcered as 



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follows; 

Captain — George H. Bowman. 

1st Lieutenant— William C. Scott. 

2d Lieutenant^John Saltsg"aber. 

Promotions will be found in the Roster of Compan}- C. 



COMPANY E. 



Company E was raised in and near Belleville by A. W. Loback, 
James Riddle and Samuel B. Donel, and went into Camp Mans- 
field with the following- officers: 

Captain — Augustus W. Loback. 

1st Lieutenant — James Riddle. 

2d Lieutenant — Samuel B. Donel. 

Promotions will be found in the Roster of Company R. 



REBEL LITERATURE. 

The following- is a veritable copy of an epitaph on the headboard 
of a rebel soldier, prepared by a "literary lady:" 
"Here lize a strainger braive, 

Who dide while fitia the Suthern Confederacy to save; 
Peice to his Dust." 

"braive Suthren frend, 

from iland 10, 

you rieched a Gloryus end." 

"We place these jQcwers above a straing-ers hed 

In honor of the shiverlus ded." 

Sweet spirit rest in heven 

Therl be no Yankis there." 




VvlLLiAM GIVEN 



Rpr^ORF) Colonel, 102d Regt. O. V. I.; enlisted 
August 18, 1862; age 43: 3 years; Brevet 
Brig. General March 13, 1865; mustered out with regiment 
June 30. 1865. 



ROSTER 



io2d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry 



FIELD AND STAFF 



Mustered in Sept, 6, 1862, at Covington, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 
Infantry U. S. A. Must .red out June 30, 1865, at Nashville, 
Tenn., by Johu T. Morris, Captain and A. C, M. 1st 
Division, 4th Army Corps. 

William Given, Colonel, 43, enl. Aug-. 18. '62. Brev. Brig. Gen., Mar. 

13, 65; mustered out with the regiment June 30, '65. 
Absolom Baker, Lt. Col., 47, enl. Aug. 11, '62, Resigned Feb. 

12, '63, on Surgeon's cenificate of disability. 

George H. Bowman, Lt. Col. 23, July 22, '62. Promoted from Cap- 
tain Co. C March 6, '63; discharged March 4, '64. 

Jonas D. Elliott, Lt. Col. 22,. July 23, '62; promoted to Major from 
Captain Co. H March 6, '6 3; Lieut. Col. April 23, '64; died Oct. 

13, '64, of wounds received Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala 
John Huston, Lt. Col. 41, July 15, '62; promoted to Major from Cap- 
tain Co. A April 23, '64; Lieut. -Col. Feb 10, '65; mustered out 
with regiment June 30, '65. 

George H. Topping, Major, 47, Aug. 14, '62; resigned Mar. 25, '63. 
Alexander V. Patterson, Surgeon, 31, Aug 25, '62; mustered out 

with the regiment. 
George Mitchell Assistant Surgeon. 24, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out 

with regiment. 
George W. Sayers, Ass'f.., Surg. Sept. 12, '62; Died Dec. 26, '62 at 

Bowling Green, Ky. 
Aaron J. Irwin, Ass't. Surg. March 30, '63; promoted to Surg. 2d 

Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry, April 18. '64. 



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John W. Beekman, Adjutant, 41, July 23, '62; promoted to Maj. i20th 

O. V. I Sept. 8, '62 
Frank Ward, Adj. 28, Aug-. 25, '62; never reported to regiment. 
William H. McMonigal, Adj. 32, July 30, '62; promoted to Sergt. 

Major from pri. Co. F Aug-. 18, '62; to 1st Lieut, and Adj. Sept. 

8,' 62; Ciptiin C ). D Apr. 8. '65. 
William H. Rutter, Adj. 23, July 26, '62; promoted Sergt. Major 

from Serg-eant Co. A Nov. 2, '62; 2d Lieut. Co. A Feb, 22, '63; 1st 

Lieut, and Adj. Apr. 8, '65; mustered out with reg-iment. 
Emanuel Hade. R. Q. M. 43, July 23, '62; transferred to Co. C May 

12, '63. 
DeWitt C. Connell, R. Q. M. 31, Aug. 12, '62; Promoted to 2st Lieut. 

Co. I from Q. M. Serg-t. Feb 26, '63; 1st Lieut, and Regt. Quar- 

master to date from April 17, '63. 
John Castor, R. Q. M. 26, July 19, '62; appointed from 1st Lieut- 
Co. A Sept. 18, '64; promoted to Captain Co. A April 23. '64. 
Edwin Farmer, R. Q. M. 19, Aug. 13, '62; appointed from 1st Lieut. 

Co. A. Feb. 21, '65; mustered out with regiment. 
Hugh L. Parrish, Chaplain, 49, Aug. 3, '62, Appointed Sept. 6, '62- 

resigned June 4, '63. 
John C. Duncan, Sergt. Major, 26, Aug. 5, '62; promoted from 

Sergeant Co. A Feb. 22, '63; to 2d Lieutena nt Co. F Sept. 8, 'b4. 
John F. Hudson, Sergt. Major, 19, Aug. 13, '62, promoted from 

Corporal Co. G Nov. 1, '64; mustered out with regiment. 
Robert Colburn, Q. MS. 40, July 17, '62; promoted from private 

Co. C Feb. 1, '63; mustered out with regiment. 
Joseph L. Hott, Com. Sergt. 20, Aug. 4, '62; promoted from private 

Co. ; returned to Co. C Feb. 1, '63. 

William Nickolson, Com. Sergt. 35, Aug. 1, '62; promoted from 
private Co. C Feb. 1, '63; mustered out with regiment. 

Hamilton McClurg, Hosp, Steward, 22, Aug. 14, 62; mustered out 

with regiment. 
Jeremiah D. Miller, Principal Musician, 23, Aug. 6, '62; promoted 

from private Co. F Aug. 7, '63; reduced to ranks and assigned to 

Co. F Jan. 14, '63. 

Andrew J. Hammond, Principal Musician, 37, Aug. 11, '65; pro 
moted from Musician Co. D Sept. 1, 63; mustered out with regt- 

Emuel G. Richards, Prin. Mus. 1, Aug. 14, '65; promoted from 
Corporal Co. A, July 15, '63, mustered out with regiment. 



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COMPANY A. 

Mustered in Sept. 6, 1862, at Coving^ton, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nasiiville, 

Tenn. , by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

John Huston, Captain, 41, July 15, '62: promoted to Major April 
33, '64, 

John Castor, Captain, 26, July 19, '63; appointed 1st Lieut. July 23, 
'63, Regt. Quartermaster Sept 18, '64; promoted to Captain Apr. 
23, '64; mustered out with company. 

Edwin Farmer, 1st Lieut. 19, Aug-. 13, '62; promoted from 3d Lieut- 
Co. C Oct. 12, '64, appointed Regt. Quertermaster B^eb. 2, '65. 

Robert Sands, 1st Lieut. 37, July 24, '62; promoted from 3d Lieut. 
Co. F to date Sept. 8, '64; mustered out with company. 

John Eberhardt, 2d Lieut. 36, July 33, '62; resigned Feb 23, '63. 
William H. Rutter, 2d Lieut. 23, July 26. '(,2', promoted to Sergt. 

Major from Sergt. Nov. 2, '62; 2d Lieut. B"eb. 22, '63; 1st Lieut- 

and Adjutant, April 8, '05. 

James E. Anderson, 1st Sergeant, 24, July 18, '62; discharged 
April 26, '65, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

David Henderson, 1st Serereant, 21, Aug-. 9, '62; appointed from 
Sergeant May 1, '65; mustered out with company. 

Benjamin F. Wade, Sergeant, 25, Aug. 8, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, 
in action at Athens, Ala.; perished by explosion of steamer Sul- 
tana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., April 37, '65. 

John Longenecker, 26, Sergeant, 23, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out 
with company. 

John C. Duncan, Sergeant, Aug. 11, '62; appointed from Corporal 
Nov. 2, '62; promoted to Sergt Major Feb. 22, '63. 

Ezra Crawford, Sergeant, 32, Aug. 11, '62; appointed from Corpo- 
ral Feb. 22, '(J3; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala. , 
exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 20, '65, at Columbus, 
O., by order of War Department. 

Robert A. Boling, Sergeant, 22, Aug. 1, '62: appointed from Corpo- 
ral May 1, '65; mustered oui with company. 

Thomas Johnston, Sergeant, 23, Aug. 9, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral May 1, '65; mustered out with company. 

Jacob S. Newcomer, Sergeant, IS, Aug. 4, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral May 21, '65; mustered out with company. 

William K. Mitchell, Corporal, 22, July 26, '(.2. 
LeviStrock, Corporal, 23, July 29, '62; died June 10 '63 in hospital 
at Clarksville, Tenn. 

Emuel G. Richards, Corporal, 21, Aug. 14, '62i appointed Nov. 2, 
'62, promoted to Principal Musican July 15, '63 



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Joseph H. Cole, Corpora], 23, Aug. 8, '62; appointed March 16, '63; 

mustered out with company. 
William Laug-head, Corporal, 25 July 26, '62; appointed' July 1, '63; 

mustered out with company. 
Ephraim T. Gleason, Corporal, 36, Aug-. 9, '62; appointed July 20, 

'63; mustered out June 15, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of 

War Department. 
David Craven, Corporal, 18, Aug- 6, '62; appointed July 20, '63; 

mustered out with company. 
Hiram Fishburn, Corporal, 28, Aug-. 5, '62; appointed May 1, '65, 

mustered out Vv'ith company. 
Rufus Swinehart, Corporal, 19, Aug-. 15, '62, appointed March 1, 

'65, mustered out with company. 
Robert McClure, Corporal, 19, Aug:. 9, '62, appointed May 21, '65, 

mustered out with company. 
Abraham Rohrer, Corporal, 21, Aug. 8, '62, appointed June 9, '65, 

mustered out with company. 
Croco H. Crawford, Corporal, 27, July 30, '62, appointed March 16, 

'63, wounded Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala,, mustered 

out June 8, '65, at camp.Dennison, O. by order of War Department. 
Atkinson, Joseph E., Private, 40 Aug-. 6, '62, discharg-ed Aug-. 25, 

'62 at Mansfield, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Beving-ton, Josiah S., Private, 18, Aug-. 13, '62, mustered out with 

company. 
Bitner, James A., Pri. 19, Aug-. 6, '62, mustered out v^'ith company 
Castor, Cscar E. Pri, 18, Dec. 29, '63, transferred to Co. A. 189th 

O. V. I. July 12, '55. 
Claney, Robert S. Pri. 23, Aug-. 9, '62, mustered out with company 
Cole John W. Pri. 18, Feb. 24, '64, detached as telegraph operator 

at Tunnel Hill, Ga., mustered out July 26, '65. at Columbus, O., 

by order of War Department. 
Crocker, John, Pri. 18, Aug. 11, '62, discharged Aug. 26, '62, by 

civil authority. 

Culberson, Jacob N. Pri. 30 Mch. 30, '64, trans, to Co. A 189th O. 
V. I. July 12, '66. 

Cullers, Jehu, Pri. 21, Aug. 7, '63. discharged Sept. 10, '62, at 

Bowling Green, Ky. on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Daniels, Thomas. Pri. 30, Aug. 15, '62, Wounded Sept. 24, '64, in 

action at Athens. Ala. mustered out with company. 
Daniels Alexander, Pri. 23 July 29, '62, mustered out with company 
Davidson, James, Pri. 29, Aug. 5, '64, mustered out with company 
Dorsey, Seth, Pri. 19, July 26, '62, mustered out May 15, '65, at 

Huntsville, Ala. by order of War Department. 
Douglas, John A., Pri. 18, Feb. 7, '65, transferred to Co. A 189th 

O. V. L July 12, '65. 



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Kberhardt, Alfred, Pri. 24, Aug-. 10; '62, mustered out with compy 

Emmons, James, Pri. 18, Aug-, 6, '62, mustered out with company 

Ewing- Alfred R. Pri. 20, Aug-. IS, '62, mustered out with company 

Fabra, David, Pri. 20, Aug. 9, '62, captured Sept. 24. '64, in action 

at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by explosion 

of steamer Sultana on Mississipi River, near Memphis, Tenn. 

April 27, '65. 

Finney, Johnson, Pri. 23, July 29. '62, discharged Jan. 10, '63, at 
Bowling- Green, Ky., on Surg-eon's certificate of disability. 

Gates, Peter, Pri. 35, Aug. 11. '62, mustered out with company. 

Greenwood, Charles W. Pri. 18, Aug. 12, '62, discharged Aug-. 29, 
'62, at Mansfield, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Guard, James VV,, Pri. 18, Aug. 1, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala. exchanged April 22, '65, perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. April 27, '65. 

Guard, Thomas J. Pri. 19, Aug. 5, '62, mustered out with company 

Guard, John, Pri. 22, Aug. 5, '62, mustered out with company. 

Guib, Jacob, Pri. 20, Aug. 11, '62, captured Se^^t. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by explosion 
of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 
April 27, '65. 

Haly, John, Pri. 20, Aug. 6, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at 
Athens. Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out May, 20, '65 
at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Hall, John W., Pri. 18, July 28, '62, mustered out May 10, '65, at 
Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Hall, George L., Pri. 18, Aug. 5, '62, captured Sept. 24, *64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchang-ed. April 22, '65, perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn.; April 27, '65. 

Hal], Alonzo, Pri. 18, Dec. 25, '63, captured Sept. 24' '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala, exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out June 23, 
'65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Harrison, Enoch, Pri. 18, Aug-. 11, *62, mustered out May 30, '65, 
at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War Depertment. 

Hass, George, Pri. 20, Aug. 14, '62, captured, April 24^ '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '64, mustered out May, 
20, '65 at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Haun, Jacob, S. Pri. 20, Aug-. 13, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64 in action 
at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '(>5, mustered out June 24, 
'65 at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Hayes, Thomas J.. Pri. 34, Aug-. 5, *62, musterout out June 29, '05 , 
at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Henderson, V/esley, Pri. 21, Aug-. 5, 6'2, captured Sept. 24, '64, in 



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at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 
ol steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis Tenri. 
April 27, '65. 

Hites, Georg-e, Pri. 29, July 29, '62; mustered out May 17, '65, at 
Stevenson, Ala., by order of War Department. 

Hites, William, H. Pri. 18, Aug-. 5, *62; mustered out with company 

Homer. Jacob, Pri, 24, Aug;. 14, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 
20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Isch, Jacob, Pri. 19. Aug". 14, '62; drowned Dec, 31, '64, in Tennes- 
see River, by collision of steamers at Decatur, Ala. 

Jameson, Elijah, Pri. 18, July 26, '62; mustered out with company 

Jones, John, Pri. 26, Aug-. 12, '62, died April 11, '86, in hospital at 
Clarksville, Tenn. 

Kilg-ore, Oliver, Pri, 23, Aug 4, '62; mustered out with company. 

Kilg-ore, Zimri, Pri. 21, Aug-. 13, '62; died Feb. 27, '63, in hospital 
at Clarksville, Tenn. 

Kline, Knox, Pri. 18, Aug-. 1, '62, mustered out May 15, '65, at 

Huntsville Ala., by order of War Department. 

Knee, Alfred A., Pri. 34, Aug-. 8, '62, mustered out with company 

Lee, Wesley, Pri. 19, Aug-. 9, '62;'captured Sept. '24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 20, 
'65, by order of War Department. 

Liggett, David R., Pri. 18, Aug-. 6, '62; mustered in as Wag-oner; 
mustered out June 30, '65, by order of War Depratment. 

Livingston, Charles, Pri. 24, Aug. 9, '62, mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Longenecker, Henry, Pri. 21, Aug. 13, '62; reduced from Corporal 
at his own request July 15, '63, mustered out with company. 

McClure, Andrew J., Pri. 18, July 29, '62, discharged Aug. 25, '62, 
at Mansfield. O, 

McCullough, John B., Pri. 21. Aug. 9, '62, died Feb. 23, '63, in hos- 
pital at Clarksville, Tenn. 

McGinnis, Luther,Pri. 18, Aug. 12, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

McLaughlin, John G. Pri. 20, Aug. 11, '62, died Dec. 28, '62, in 
hospital at Russellville, Ky. 

Mackey, John. Pri. 21, July 29, '62, mustered out June 10, '65, at 
Columbus, O., by order of War De^^artment. 

Martin, Lewis C, 18, Aug. 3, '62, discharged Aug. 3, 'G2, on Sur" 
geon's certificate of disability. 

Merchand, Leander, Pri. 19, Dec. 28, '63, captured Sept. 24, '64, in 



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action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, 't35, perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Milton, Thomas. Pri. 18, Aug-. 8, '62. wounded and captured Sept. 

24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, dis- 
charged June 26, '65, at U. S. General Hospital, Annapolis, Md., 
on surgeon, certificate of disability. 

Mitchell, Joseph R., Pri. 31, Aug. 5, '62; captured Sept, 24. '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; peaished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April, 27 '65. 

Morehead, Josiah, Pri. 18, «_,uly 29, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., died March 29, '65, in Rebel Prison, at 
Meridian, Miss. 

Moyer, Martin, Pri. 20, Aug. 13, '62, discharged Sept. 6, '62, by 
order of War Debartment. 

Nouse, George, Pri. 18, Aug. 9, '62, wounded and captured Sept. 

25, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mus- 
tered out June 12, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War 
Department. 

Orr, Joseph, Pri. 22, Aug. 12, '62, mustered out with company. 

Peckham, Paul R., Pri. 23, Aug. 9, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, ,65, mustered out 
May 20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Potot, Joseph, Pri. 25, Aug. 13, '62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 
May 20, '62, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Pyers, Samuel, Pri. 19, Aug. 9, '62, transferred to Co. I, 5th Regi- 
ment Veteran Reserve Corps, Feb. 15, '64, mustered out July 5, 
'65. at Indianapolis, Ind., by order of War Department. 

Reed, Samuel S., Pri. 28, Aug. 9, '62, died Dec. 10, '62, in hospital 

at Louisville, Ky. 
Reed, James P., Pri. 18, Aug. 9, '65, mustered out with company. 
Richards, Samuel D.. Pri. 18, Feb. 24, '64, transferred to Co. A 

189th O. v., July 12, 1865. 
Ross, William, Pri. 18, Aug. 9 '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, inaction 

at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out May 20, 

'65 at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Sandel, John, Pri. 25, Aug. 12, '62. wounded Sept. 24, '64, in action 

at Athens Ala., mustered out May 28, '65, at Louisville, Ky., by 

order of War Department. 
Sandel, Casper, Pri. 21, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with company. 
Sandel, Christian, Pri. 19, Aug. 12, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 

action at Athens, Ala., died Dec. 13, '64, in Rebel Prison at An- 

dersonville, Ga. 



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Shutt, George L., Pri., 22, Aug 13, '62; musteredout with company 
Skelly, Daniel, Pri. 18, July 28, '62, musteredout with company. 
Skelly, Hiram, Pri. 18, July 29, '62; Died Feb. 11, '63, in hospital at 
iJowiing Green, Ky. 

Smith. David vV., Pri. 21, Aug. 7. '62; discharged March 15, '63, at 
Russelville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disabilit}-. 

Speelman, William, Pri. 19, Aug. 9, '62, mustered out with company 

Speelman, Silas, Pri. 18, Aug. 2, '62; wounded Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala.; mustered out with company. 

Spring, George. Pri. 21, Aug. 2, '62; died April 7, '64 in hospital at 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Spring, Jacob, Pri. 26, Aug. 15, '62; died Feb. 23, '63, in hospital at 
Clarksville, Tenn. 

Stephens, William, Pri. 18, July 28, '62; mustered out with company 

Summers, Jacob, Pri. 23 Aug. 9, '62; mustered out June 12, '65, at 
Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Sumney, Adam, Pri. 21, Aug. 5, '62: mustered out with company. 

Thornberg, Elizur, J. Pri. 18, Aug. 12. '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

True, Thomas, Pri. 29, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Uhl, John F, Pri, 18, July 26, '62; mustered out June 19, '65, at 
Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Wag-es, William, Pri. 25, Aug. 8, '62; discharged Aug. 25, '62, on 
Surgean's certificate of disability. 

Walters, Michael, Pri. 28, Aug.8, '62; mustered out with company 

Walters. Isaac, Pri. 31, Dec. 7, '63; transferred to Co. A, 189th O 
V. I., July 12, '65. 

Wells, James, Pri. 18, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company. 

Wheaton, William, Pri. 18, Dec. 28, '63; : transferred to Co. A, lS9th 
O. V. I. July 12. '65. 

Wiggins, Henry, Pri. 20, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with company- 
General Harrison Baker, Cook, 21, May 11, '63; Colored und er-cook, 
discharged June 30. '65, as supernumerary. 

James Davison. Cook, 18, Oct. 1, '63, colored under-cook, dis- 
charged June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 



COMPANY B. 

Mustered in Sept. 6, 1862, at Covington, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nasiiville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

John McNaull Captain, 21, July 23, '62; resigned Dec. 21, '62, on 
Surgeon's certificate of disability. 



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Joseph R. Folwell, Captain, 21, July 21, '62; promoted from 1st 

Lieut. Dec. 20, '62. 
William A. Beer, Captain, 29, July 29, '62; promoted from 1st Lieut. 

Co. K, Nov. 26, '64; mustered out with company. 
Holliday Ames, 1st Lieutenant, 43, July 21, *62; promoted from 2d 

Lieutenant, Dec. 20. "62; Clustered out with company. 
John T. Roberts, 2d Lieutenant, 29, Aug-. 9, '62; promoted from 

1st Sergeant Dec. 20, '62; to 1st Lieut. Co. C, April 23, '64. 
William H. White, 1st Serg-eant, 20, July 30, '62; promoted from 

Sergeant Feb. 28, '63; mustered out May 15, '65, at Huntsville, 

Ala. 
Samuel R. Smith. 1st Sergeant, 33, Aug-. 9, '62; appointed Sergeant 

from Corporal, Dec. 13, '62; 1st Sergeant May 16, '65; mustered 

out with company. 
Devilla Bender, Sergeant, 33, Aug. 14, '62; discharged Dec. 10, '62, 

at Bowling- Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Oscar Swineford, Sergeant, 21, Aug. 9, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 

in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 

May 11, '65, at Columbus, O-, by order of War Department. 

David Carr, Sergeant, 32, Aug. 12, '62; died Dec. 13, '64, at Jeffer- 
son Barracks, Mo. 

William J. Laughan, Sergeant, 23, Aug. 14, '62; appointed from 
Corporal, Dec. 13, '64, mustered out with company. 

Hiram A. Kellogg, Sergeant. 18, Aug. 15, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral, Apr, 28. 65; mustered out with company. 

Dillman Newman, Sergeant, 19, Aug. 9, '62; appointed Corporal 
Dec. 13, '62, Sergeant May 11, '65, mustered out with company. 

Henry C. Boffinmyer, Sergeant, 22, Aug. 11, '62; appointed Corpo- 
ral btc. 13, '62, Sergeant May 16, '65, mustered out with com pany 

Reuben A. Richards, Sergeant, 33, Aug. 9, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral Nov. 11, '63, captured Sept. 24, '64, at Athens, Ala., ex- 
changed April 22, '65, perished by explosion of steamer Sultana, 
on Mississiapi River, near Memphis, Tenn., April, 27, '65. 

William Green, Sergeant, 25, Aug. 13, '62; appointed from private 

, discharged Nov. 7, '63, at Nashville, Tenn., on Surgeon's 

certificate of disability. 

Hibbard R. Ridgeley, Corporal, 25, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out May 
30, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 

John A. Onstott, Corporal, 21, Aug. 5,. '62; transferred to Marine 
Service Dec. 13, '62. 

Henry Krebbs, Corporal, 25, Aug. 14, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by ex- 
plosion oi steamer Sultana, on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
tenn., April 27, '65. 

James B. Hull, Corporal, 21, Aug. 12, '62; appointed Nov. 7, '63, 
aiuslered out with company. 



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Jacob Hildebrandt, Corporal, !18, Aug-, 3, '62; appointed July 9, '64, 

mustered out with company. 
Joseph Lucas, Corporal, 23, Aug. 4, '62; appointed April 28. '65, 

mustered out with company. 
John H. Bender, Corporal, 18, Aug. 9, '62, appointed April 28, '65, 

mustered out with company. 
JacobMcCauley, Corporal. 18, Aug. 11, '62; appointed April 28, '65, 

mustered out with company. 

Livingston Anderson, Corporal. 22, Aug. 15, '62; appointed May 11, 

'65, mustered out with company, 
Nathaniel Eddy, Corporal, 33, Aug-. 15, '62; appointed May 16, '65 

mustered out with company. 
John Waggoner, 20, Corporal, Aug. 11, '62, appointed June 1, '65, 

mustered out with company. 
John McCrea, Corporal, , 24, Aug-. 9, '62; appointed Dec. 14, '62, 

captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 

22, '65, perished by explosion of steamer Sultana, on Mississippi 

River, near Memphis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 
Albright Henry. Pri., 18. Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company 
Bahn, Adam Pri., 22, Aug-. 27, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 

at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by explosion 

of steamer Sultana, on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 

April 22, '65. 

Bailey, Henry A., Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; mustered in as Musician, 
mustered out with company. 

Bailey, Franklin, Pri., 21, Aug. 13, '62; discharged Nov. 17. '62, 
at Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Bair, Adam, Pri., 20, Aug. 27, '62. 

Biggs, Joseph S., Pri,, 22, Aug-. 16, '62; mustered out with company 

Boyd, Stephen A., Pri., 18, Aug-. 4, '62; died Feb. 22, '64, at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

Brown, John, Pri., 26, Aug. 15, '62; discharged, Nov. 25, '62, at 
Louisville, Ky. on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Brubaker, John W., Pri., 19, Aug. 19, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Craig, Porter, Pri., 20. Aug. 13, '62; mustered out with company. 

Croan, James^W. Pri. 27, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company. 

Ecker, David N., Pri., 18, Aug^. 14, '62; died Oct. 3, '63, at Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Faher, William H., Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; died Dec. 2, '62, at Bowl- 
ing Green. Ky, 

Fasig, William, Pri., 33, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company. 

Fisher, Daniel C, Pri. 45, Aug.15, '62; mustered out with company. 



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Fisher, Daniel, Jr., Pri , 18, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchang-ed April 22, '65, perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana, on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April. 27, '65. 

Fleharty, Michael, Pri. 27, July 29, '62; discharged May 8, '63, at 
Clarksville. Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

France, Henry, Pri., 35, Aug. 15, '62; discharged Jan. 28, '63, at 
Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Goudy, George, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Gresh, John. Pri., 20, Aug. 15, '62; died Dec. 22, '64, at Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Hall, Lansen, Pri,, 18, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out July 10, '65, at 
Louisville, Ky. by order of War Department. 

Hamar, Samuel, Pri. 27, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Hamilton, David, Pri. 27, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out June 7, '65, at 
Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Hartsel, John, Pri. 21, Aug. 27, '62; transferred to Co. F, 23d Reg- 
iment, Veteran Reserve Corps, Oct. 14; '63." 

Hough, Edmond, Pri. 18, Aug. 15, '62; died Oct. 9, '63, at Elk 
River, Tenn. 

Hough, Isaac, Pri., 23. Aug. 15, '62. discharged Nov. 22, '63, at 
Nashville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Hough, Louis, Pri. 22, Aug. 27, '62; died July 2, '63, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. 

House, John W.,Pri, 23; Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company. 

Hull, George B., Pri., 20, Aug. 27, '62; discharged Aug. 6, '63, at 
Louisville, Ky. 

Keener, Christian, Pri., 24, Aug. 27, '62; died July 30, '64, at Dod- 
sonville, Ala. 

Kilaver, John F., Pri., 22, Aug. 1, '62; mustered out June 26, '65, 
at Louisville, Ky., by order of War Department. 

Kiser. Theodore, Pri. 18, Aug. 1 1, '62; mustered out with company 

Kyle, Samuel, Pri. 19, Aug. 6. '63; mustered out with company. 

Lacy, Pollis D., Pri. 26, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company. 

Lundy, George F., Pri., 32, Aug. 11, '62; mustered in as Wagoner, 
musiered out with company. 

McCready, James, Pri.. 18. Aug. 13. '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

McKinney, Alexander, Pri., 21, Aug. 1; '62; discharged Jan. 8, '63, 
at Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Martin, William, Pri., 39, Aug. 15, '62. 

Maxwell, William, Pri. 22, Aug. 5, '62; died Feb. 15, '63, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. 

Mercer, Levi M., Pri.. 23, Auff. 9, '62, 



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Mercer, James M., Pri., 19. Aug-. 11, '62; also borne on rolls as John 
H. Mercer: captured Sept. 24, 'G4, in action at Athens, Ala., ex- 
changed April 22, '(J5; perished b}' explosion of steamer Sultana 
on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., April 27. 'G5. 

Mercer, Madison, Pri. 19, Aug-, 11, '62; discharged March 26, '63, 
at Col'.imbus, O., by order of ^Var Department. 

, . Andrew J., PH., 27, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with com- 

Mish, William F., Pri , 18, Aug, 18, '62; also borne on rolls as 
Franklin Mish, mustered out vvitb company. 

Pittenger, Albert, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, '62; discharged May 27. '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn. 

Pittenger, William B., Pri. 22, Aug. 15, '62;captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action a^. Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 
June 23, '65, at Camp Chase, 0-, by order of War Department. 

Potter, Silas, Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 

at Athens, Ala., paroled , was on board steamer Sultana at 

time of explosion, April 27, '65, mustered out May 11, '65, at 
Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Pryor, David, Pri., 27, Aug. 19, '62; mustered out with company. 

Richey, Stephen, Pri., 18, Aug. 29, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64 in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., died Oct. 24, '64, in Rebel Prison at Cahaba, 
Ala. 

Ridgeley Benjamin F., Pri., 20, Aug. 15, '62; mustered in as Mu- 
sician, mustered out with company. 

Ritchey, Alexander, Pri., 25, Aug. 15, '62, mustered out June 28, 
'65. at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Saner, Henry, Pri., 20, Aug. 11. *62; reduced from Corporal, 

discharged Nov. 8. '62, at Cincinnati, O. 

Scott, John M,, Pri., 21, Aug. 15, ,62; mustered out with company. 

Scruby, Samuel, Pri. 19, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with companyl 

Sheets, Alfred M,. PH., 19, Aug. 8, '62, mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Sheets Solomo", Pri., 25, Aug. 8, '62, discharged Feb. 13, '(.4, at 
Clarksville, Tenn. 

Sherradan, Paul, Pri., 18, Aug. 12, '62; discharged Jan. 15, '63, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Smalley, Daniel, Pri., 18, Aug. 13, '62; killed Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala. 

Smith, John, PH., 18, Aug. 11, '62; left sick at Bowling- Green, Ky., 

Dec. 14, '62. No further record found. 
Smith, Peter, Pri., 31, Aug. 15, '62; discharged March 3, '63, at 

Clarksville, Tenn. 

Smith, Jeremiah, Pri., 19, Aug. 15, '62; died Dec. 19, '62; at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky. 



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Schmutz, Joseph, Pri., 30, Aug-, 7, '62; discharged April 30. '63, at 
Bowling- Green, Ky. on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Spafford, Harrison, Pri., 22, Aug. 15,'62; captured Sept, 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, was on board 
steamer Sultana at time of explosion, April, 27, '65; mustered 
out May 11, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Stacher, Samuel, Pri., 20, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala. exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 
May 11, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Strock, Benjamin F., Pri., 18, Aug. 15 '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Sulcer, John, Pri., 20, July 30, '62; mustered out with company. 

Swaisgood, William, Pri., 29, Aug. 14, ,62; mustered out with 
company. 

Swaisgood, Henry, Pri. 27, Aug. 14, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Webster, Asa. Pri. 20, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, was on board 
steamer Sultana at time of explosion, April 27, '65, mustered out 
May 11, '55, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Wells, James W., Pri., 21, Aug. 9, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 

action at Athens, Ala. paroled ; mustered out to date June 

30, '65. 

Wells, Joseph, Pri. 31, July 25, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana at time of explosion on Mississippi Riv- 
er near Memphis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Whisemore, Abraham, Pri. 20, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, 
'64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; was on 
board steamer Sultata at time of explosion April 27, '65; mus- 
tered out May 11, '65, at Columbus, O. by order of War Depart- 
ment. 

Whismore, Ephraim, Pri. 18, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Whing ates Charles J. Pri. 20, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Winters Johnston, Pri. 18, Aug. 30, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Woods, Matthew, Pri. 18, Aug. 30, '62; captured Sept. 24, 1864, in 
action at Athens, Ala. exchanged April 22, '65,* was on board 
steamer Sultana at time of explosion April 27, '65, mustered out 
May 11, '65, by order of War Department. 

Wycoff, John, Pri. 18, Aug. 4, 'G:Z; mustered out with company. 



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COMPANY C 



Mustered in Sept. 6, 1862, at Covins:ton, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nashville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

Georg-e H. Bowman, Captain, 23, July 22, '62; promoted to Lieut. 
Colonel, March 6, '63. 

William C. Scott, Captain, 24. July 22, '62; promoted to 1st Lieu- 
tenant from 2d Lieutenant Feb. 1, '63, Captain March 6, '63; 
mustered out with company. 

John Saltsg-aber, 1st Lieutenant, 31, July 25, '62; resigned Feb. 1, 
'(.3. 

Emanuel Hade, 1st Lieutenant, 43, July 23, '62; transferred fron 
1st Lieutenant and Regt. Quartermaster May 12, *63; promoted 
to Captain and Asst. Quartermaster April 12, '64. 

John T. Roberts, 1st Lieutenant, 29, Aug-. 9, '62; promoted from 
2d Lieutenant Co. B, April 23, '64; mustered out with company. 

Edwin Farmer, 2d Lieutenand, 19, Aug-, 13, '62; appointed Serg-eant 
from Corporal, Oct 18, '62; 1st Serg-eant Jan. 1, '63, promoted to 
2d Lieutenant Feb. 1, '63, 1st Lieutenant Co. A, Oct. 12, '64. 

Harry J. Kellog-g-, 1st Serg-eant, 24, Aug. 2, '62. 

Cyrus Shum way, Jr., 1st Sergeant, 21, Aug. 4, '62; appointed from 
Sergeant Feb. 1, '63, mustered out with company. 

James McBride, Sergeant, 19, July 27, '62; discharged April 28, '63, 
at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

William H. Post, Sergeant, 25, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

William C. Hornberger, Sergeant, 24, Aug. 10, '62; appointed from 
private Jan. 1, '63, captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, 
Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by explosion of steamer 
Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn.. April 22, '65. 

James G. Buckingham, Sergeant, 31, Aug, 6, '62; appointed Cor" 
poral Oct. 3, '62, Sergeant Feb. 1, '63, mustered out with company. 

James Cummins, Sergeant, 18, Aug. 1, '62; appointed from Corpo" 
ral, April 30, '64, mustered out with company. 

Given Mitchell, Corporal, 29, Aug. 6, '62; promoted to 2d Lieuten" 
ant April 28, '63, but not mustered; 2d Lieutenant Omaba Scouts* 
Nebraska Infantry, May 2, '65, from which discharged April 17' 
'66. 

John Constance, Corporal, 20, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Jonas Bughman, Corporal, 40, Aug. 2, '62; mustered out with com" 
pany. 



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John Fleming-, Corporal, 22, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 
John Geary, Corporal, 32, Aug-. 11, '62; appointed May 4, '63, died 

April 11, '64, at Nashville, Tenn. 
Christian M. Hershey, Corporal, 28, Aug 11, '62; appointed May 

31, '63, mustered out with company. 
Cornelius J. Madden, Corporal, 21, Aug. 12, '62; appointed Oct. 18, 

'62, mustered out June 16, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of 

War Department. 
Josiah Pittman, Corporal, 40, Aug, 1, '62; appointed April 30. '64; 

mustered out with company. 
James F. Scott, Corporal, 18, Aug. 1, '62; appointad April 30, '64, 

mustered out with companj". 
David R. Amsbaugh, Corporal, 29, Aug. 11, '62; appoinied April 

30, '64, captured Sept. 24, '64 in action at Athens, Ala., returned 
to company June 16, '65; mustered out with company. 

Amsbaugh, Uzal, Pri., 22, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company 
Arismau, Stephen, Pri., 24, Aug. 7, *62; mustered out with company 
Barr, Robert, Pri., 20, Aug. 23, '62; discharged Feb. 25, '63, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Beams, Noah, Pri,, 27, Aug. 5, '62. 

Beckwith, John, Pri. 18, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 
Bloor, Charles, Pri. 24, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out May 30, '65, at 

Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 
Colburn, Robert. Pri. 40, July 27, '62;. promoted to Q. M. Sergeant 

Feb. 1, '63. 
Cook, Jesse, Pri. 18, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 
Cook, Robert G., Pri., 19. July 22. '62. mustered out May 30, '65, 

at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War Department. 
Couch, Charles, Pri. 25, July 25, '62; reduced from Corporal May 

31, '63, mustered out with company. 

Dixon, Wilson S., Pri, 18, July 26, '62; mustered out with company. 
Edsall, Samuel. Pri., 25, Aug. 7, '62; discharged Jan. 6, '63, at 
Louisvile, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate ot disability. 

Ealand, Edmund, Pri., 32, Aug. 5, '62; discharged Dec 31, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Enis, Francis, Pri., 20, July 27, '62; mustered out with company. 

Epley, Jacob, Pri., 23, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Epley, William, Pri. 22, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Feeman, Robert, Pri. 18, July 27, '62; mustered out with company. 

Fisher, George, Pri , 20, Aug, 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Fisher, Jared, Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company. 

Fisher, John. Pri.. 41, Aug. 1, '62; mustered in as Wagoner, , 

mustjred out with company. 



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Flint, Lysander, Pri., 41, July 22, '02; captured Sept. 24, '64; in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchang-ed April 22, '65, perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, 'G5. 

Foulks, Charles, Pri., 18, Aug-. 5, '02; mustered out with company 
Fox, Charles, Pri,, 42, Aug-. 9, '62; mustered out with company. 
Geig-er, Joseph, Pri., 21, Aug-. 13, '62; died May 10, '64, at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 
Harmon, Samuel, Pri., 31, July 29, '62; mustered out with company 
Holland, Georg-e W., Pri., 18, Aug-. 7, '02; discharg-ed Jan. 13, '63, 
at Bowling Green, Ky., 

Hollenbaug-h, iVilliam, Pri., 22, Aug-. 14, '02; transferred to Miss- 
issippi Marine Brigade, Dec. 20, '62. 

Hott, Joseph L., Pri., 20, Aug. 4, '62; promoted Com. Sergeant ; 

returned to Co. Feb. 1, '63; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at 
Athens, Ala,, exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out June 10, '65, 
at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Huffman. John, Pri., 22, Aug. 13, '02; mustered out with company 
Inman Asher, J., Pri., 18, Aug. 11. '02; mustered out with company 
Jacques, Melville, Pri., 18, Aug. 12, '62, mustered out with company 
Jones, James, Pri., 18, July 7, '62; mustered out with company- 
Jones, John, Pri., 24, Aug. 15, '02; mustered out with company. 
Jones, William, Pri., 24, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out May 30, '65, at 

Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 
Kimmell, William C, Pri., 24, July 25, '02; died Nov. 29, '62, at 

Bowling Green, Ky. 

Kissling. Isaac, Pri., 20, Aug. 7, '02; mustered out with company. 

Kurtz, Jeremiah, Pri., 29, Aug. 7, .62; mustered out with company. 

Lawrence, William, Pri., 19, July 29, '62; transferred to Mississ- 
ippi Marine Brigade Dec. 20, '62, 

Lewis, Samuel, Pri., 26, Aug. 7, '62, mustered out with company. 

Light, George, Pri., 18, Aug. 6, '02; mustered in as Musician, mus- 
tered out with company. 

Lilly, Thomas, Pri., 20, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Logan. Ephraim C , Pri., 32, Aug. 15, '02; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Long, Joseph, Pri., 19, Aug. 11, '62; transferred to Mississippi 
Brigade, Dec. 20, '62. 

Loring, William, Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company 
Lowe, James M., Pri., 21. July 27, '62; mustered out with company 
Lowry, Andrew, Pri., 29, Aug. 9. '02; mustered out with company 
Mcllvain, William, Pri., 18, July 29, '62; died Nov, 29, '02, at Bowl- 
ing- Green, Ky. 



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Manor, John W., PH., 21, July 27, '62; died Jan. 16, '63, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Martin, Samuel, Pri., 19, July 28, '62; discharged Dec, 17, *62, at 
Bowling Green, Ky. 

Mason, James. Pri., 23, Aug. 2, '62; reduced from Corporal June 
30, '64, at his own request; mustered out with company. 

Miller, Samuel, Pri., 26, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out May 30, '65, at 
Camp Dennison, O., by order of War Department 

Michell, James D., Pri., 20, July 29, '62; discharged April 8, '63, 
at Louisville, Ky,, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Moon, John A., Pri., 23, Aug. 7, '62; died Dec. 8, '62, at Bowling 
Green, Ky, 

Moon, William, Pri., 21, Joly 27, '62; mustered out May 15, '65, at 
Huntsviile, Ala., by order of War Department. 

Moores, Alfred B,. Pri., 18, Jnly 27, '62; mustered in as Musician, 
mustered out with company. 

Moores,; Edward, Pri., 38, Aug. 4, '62; died Oct. 10, '62, at Cincin- 
nati, O. 

Myers, William, Pri., 24, Aug. 7. '62. 

Nickolson, William, Pri., 35, Aug. 1, '62; promoted to Com. Ser- 
geant Feb. 1, '63. 

Osborn Walter, Pri., 22, July 28, '62; died May 4, '63 at Clarksville, 
Tenn. 

Patterson, David, Pri., 21, Aug. 9, .62; mustered out with company 

Pa\ne, John, Pri., 34, July 31, '62, mustered out with company. 

Payne, William, Pri., 37, Aug. 6, '62; transferred to Co. K, Sth 

Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, , discharged March 21, 

'65, at Indianapolis, Ind., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Pifer, Joel, Pri., 19, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Pittman, George, Pri., 18, Aug, 1, '62; mustered out with company 

Post, William B., Pri., 24, July 29, '62; mustered out with company 

Price, Benjamin F., Pri., 20, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Price, John, Pri., 21, Aug. 6, '62. 

Rankins, Oliver, Pri., 19, Aug. 15. '62; captured Sept. 24, '64 in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., died Oct. 31, '64, in Rebel Prison at Cahaba, 
Ala. 

Riggle, Henry, Pri., 35, Aug. 11, '62; died Oct. 23, '64, at Decatur, 
Ala. 

Sandel, John, Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; died May 20, '63, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Simons, James, Pri,, 20, Aug. 10, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 



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Roberts, James, Pri., 26, July 27, '62; mustered out with company 

Smith, Georg-e K., Pri., 21, July 24, 'C2; appointed Sergeant May 
4; '63; reduced March 18. '64, mustered out with company. 

Torry, George H., Pri., 23, Aug. 14, *62; reduced from Sergeant 
Oct, 17, '62; transferred to Mississippi Marine Brigade Dec. 20, 
'62. 

Turbett, George W., Pri., 45, Aug. 2, '62; discharged Oct. 20. '63, 
at Cincinnati, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Turbett, James R., Pri., 23, Aug. 5, '62; transferred to Veteran 
Reserve Corps April 20, '64. 

Wagner, Lewis, Pri., 19, Aug. 6, '62; died Nov. 28, '64, at Tulla- 
homa, Tenn. 

Walters, Jacob, Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Walters, John, Pri., 20, Aug, 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Ward, William G., Pri., 36, Aug. 6. '63; discharged Dec. 19, '62, at, 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Weagley, James M., Pri., 36, Aug-. 6, '62, mustered out with com- 
pany. 

West, William, Pri., 26, July 27, '63; mustered out with company. 

Wise, John, Pri., 29, Oct. 3, '64; transferred to Co. G, 198th O. V. 
I., July 12, '62. 

Marshall Banks, Cook, 44, May 5, '63; colored under-cook, mus- 
tered out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 

George Collins, Cook, 20, Sept. 20, '63; colored under-cook, mus- 
tered out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 



COMPANY D. 

Mustered in Sept. 0, 1862, at Covinofton, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 80, 1865. at Nasiiville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

Aaron E. Zoda, Captain, 27, July 22, '62; died B^eb, 21, '65, at Lou- 
isville, Ky., of wounds received Sept. 24, '64. in action at Athens, 
Ala. 

William H. McMonigal, Captain, 32, July 30, '62; promoted from 
1st Lieutenant and Adjutant April 8, '(»5; mustered out with 
company. 

Gaylord Thomas, 1st Lieutenant, 21, July 23, '62; resigned Feb. 
18, '63. 

Gustavus Woolf, 1st Lieutenant, 25, July 22, '62; promoted from 
2d Lieutenant to date from Feb. 1, '63, mustered out with com- 
pany. 



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James A. Dougal, 2d Lieutenant, 25, Aug. 5, '62; promoted from 
1st Sergeant Feb. 1, '63; mustered out with company, 

Jesse E. Norman, 1st Sergeant, 36, July 28, '62; appointed from 
Corporal Feb. 1. '63; discharged April 8, '65, at Decatur, Ala., on 
Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Marion D. Ward, 1st Sergeant, 21, Aug. 7, '62; appointed from 
Sergeant April 7, '65; mustered out with company. 

Joseph B. F. Corts, Sergeant, 22, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis. Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Thomas B. Keech, Sergeant, 21, Aug. 5, '62; discharged April 23, 
*63, at Clarksville Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Andrew C. Patterson, Sergeant, 22, Aug. 5, '62; discharged Feb. 
18, '63, at Cincinnati, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Adam Bringman, Sergeant. 23, Aug. 11, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral Aug. 27, '64, mustered out with company. 

Thomas F. Gardner, Sergeant, 23, Aug. 10, '62; appointed Corpo- 
ral Nov. 20, '62, Sergeant March 7, '65; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Alexander Bradley, Sergeant. 32, Aug. 9, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral April 23, '63; discharged March 7, '65 at Columbus, O., on 
Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Job J. Anders, Sergeant, 20, Aug. 8, '62; appointed from Corporal 
Feb. 18, '63; died Aug. 27, '64, at Bellefonte, Ala^'. 

Jacob Martin, Sergeant, 19, Aug. 11, '62; appointed Corporal Dec. 
31, '62, Sergeant April 7, '65; mustered out with company. 

John W. Rallston, Sergeant, 25, Aug. 9, '62; appointed Corpora] 
Feb. 1, '63;Sergeant, April 27, '65; mustered out with company. 

George A Summers, Corporal, 18, Aug. 4, '62; discharged Dec. 11, 
'62, at Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Milton S. Charles, Corporal, 22, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out May 23, 
'62,at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Deparoment. 

Victor, Gutzwiller, Corporal, 18, July, 29, '62; discharged Nov. 
21, '62 at Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disa- 
bility. 

David C. Vasbinder, Corporal, 19, Aug. 8. '62; discharged May 21, 
'64, at Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

George M. Penn, Corporal, 18, Aug. 9, '62; appointed Feb. 18, '63; 
mustered out with company. 

John A. Gahagan, Corporal, 32, Aug, 7, '62; appointed April 25, '63, 
mustered out with company. 

Joseph A. Cope, Corporal, 20, Aug. 2, '62; appointed May 21, '64; 
mustered out with company. 

William A. Ferre, Corporal, 29, Aug. 9, '62; appointed April. 27, '64, 
mustered out with company. 



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Peter Pfingstag-, Corporal, 19, Aug. 7, '62; appointed March 7, '65, 
mustered out with company. 

David Nidy, Corporal, 26, Aug-. 14, '62; appointed April 7, 65, -mus- 
tered out with comsany. 

Jacob C. Martin, Corporal, 22, Aug. 9, '62; appointed April 27, '65, 
mustered out with company 

Ransom J. Osbun, Corporal, 20, Aug. 11, '62; appointed May 23, 
'65, mustered out with company. 

Andrew J. Hammond, Musician, 37, Aug. 11, '62; promoted t© 
Prin. Musician, Jan, 1. '63. 

Baker, John, Pri. 23, Aug. 11, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala., exchaneed April 22, '65; perished by explosion of 
steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 
April 27, '65. 

Baker, Peter, Pri., 21, Jan. 27, *64; captured Sept. 24, '64, inaction 
at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 3, 
'65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Baldwin, Thomas C, Pri., 20, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Beech, James D,, Pri., 17, Aug. 6, '62; captured Sept. 24, 'b4. in 
action at Athens, Ala;,exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 
June 10, '65 at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Berry, Samuel, Pri., 24, Aug. 11, '62; killed Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala, 

Bringman Joseph, Pri., 21, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; mustered out May 20 at Columbus, O., 
by order of War Department. 

Burt, John, H., Ari., 20, Aug. 6, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana oa Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Carter, Adam, Pri., 32, Aug. 7, '62; discharged Oct. 12, '63, at 
Cowan, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Charles, John A., Pri., 20, Aug. 11, '62; discharged Oct. 12, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Charles Newton, Pri., 19, March 28, '64; mustered out May 23, 
'65, at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 

Charles, Washington H., Pri., 20, Aug. 11, '62; dischagred April 

16, '64, at Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Connell, DeWitt C, Pri., 31, Aug. 12, '62, promoted to Q. M. Ser- 
geant Sept. 6, '62. "" 

Cook, Cyrus W., Pri. 19, Aug. 18 '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 

17, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 



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Earick, William, PH., 23, Aug. 18, '62; captured Sept, 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Furguson, Levi, Pri., 19, Aug. 11, '62; died May 23, '64, at Tulla- 
homa, Tenn, 

Frost, Ansel, Pri., 42, Aug. 5, '62; discharged May 28, '63, at 
Clarksville; Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Gates, Napoleon, Pri., 20, Aug. 11, '62; musterdd out with company 

Gibson, John W., Pri., 35, July 25, '62; transferred to 58th Co. 2d 
Battallion Veteran Reserve Corps, Oct. 14, '64; thence to Co. K, 
7th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps; mustered out June 29, 
'65, at Washington, D. C, by order of War Department. 

Glaser, John, Pri., 28, Aug. 6, '62; mustered in as Wagoner; cap- 
tured Sept. 24, '64, inaction at Athens Ala.; exchanged April 22. 
'65; mustered out with company. 

Greenfield, Reuben, Pri., 17, Aug. 16, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64. 
in action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 23, '65 at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Grice, David, Pri., 22, July 30, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 
ol steamer Sultana on Mississipi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 
April 27, 65. 

Grove, vVilliam, H., Pri., 26, Aug. 5, '62; discharged Jan. 5, '64, at 
Nashville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Guthrie, William, Pri., 26, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Harnly, Manuel, Pri., 19' Aug. 9, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Houston, John D., Pri., 23, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Jackson, Samuel F., Pri., 32, July 23, '62; discharged Oct. 8, '62, 
at Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Jolly, Joseph, Pri.; 17, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Kautfman, Daniel, Pri,, 19, Aug, 11, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; died Nov. 7, '64, in Rebel Prison at Caha- 
ba, Ala. 

Keith, Andrew J., Pri., 22, Aug. 8, '62; discharged Jan. 23, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Kleinman, Jacob,, Pri., 30, Aug. 6, '62; mustered outwith company 

Kline, Joseph, Pri., 19, Aug, 22, '62; mustered out May 16, '65, at 
Nashville, Tenn., by orderof War Department, 

Lantz, Jacob, Pri., 21, Aug. 11, '62; died Sept. 7, '64, at Athens, 
Ala. 



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Kochenderfer John H., PH., 19, Aug. 11, '62; captured Sept. 24, 
'64, in action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered 
out May 20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Lisle, Aaron B., Pri. 24, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 
Lantz, Jacob, Pri., 21, Aug. 11, '62; died Sept. 7, '64, at Athens, Ala. 
Lutz, Samuel, Pri., 36, Aug. 11, *62; mustered out with company. 
McCormick, David, Pri., 35, Aug. 5, '62/ discharged June 3, '65, 
at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Marshal, James, Pri., 21, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Matthews, Daniel, Pri., 21, Aug. 11, '62; died Dec. 16, '62 at Louis- 
ville, Ky. 

Miller, Charles H,, Pri., 24, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out June 14, '65, 
at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 

Miller, George W., Pri., 22, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Mitchell, David K., Pri., 28, Aug. 11, '62; discharged April 23, '63, 
at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Muscroft, James S., Pri., 22, Aug. 5, '62; discharged May 29, '63, 
at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Muscroft, Samuel J., Pri., 23, Aug. 5, 62; mustered out May 23, 
'65, at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 

Myers, David, Pri., 18, Dec. 19, '63; transferred to Co. A, 189th O. 
V I., July 12, '65. 

Nelson, David, Pri , 19, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Osbun, Freeman, Pri., 19, Aug. 11; '62; mustered out May 23, 'bS, 
at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 

Palmer, Jabez, Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Pittenger, Henry O., Pri., 19, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out May 30, 
'65. at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War Department. 

Pittenger, Isaac M., Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Pitienger, Lemuel O., Pri,, 22, Ang. 7, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Prame, Franklin J., Pri., 18,'Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company 
Rallston George W., Pri.,22. Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company 

Rallston. John, Pri., 24, Aug. 5, '62; drowned Julv 1, '63, while 
bathing at Clarksville, Tenn. 

Rallston, William C, Pri., 24, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Reed, Eben, Pri., 18, July 25, '62; discharged Dec. 16, '62, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Rohrer, Elias C, Pri., 20, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; died Nov. 12, '64, in Rebel Prison at 
Cababa, Ala. 



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Seaton, John F., Pri., 21, Aug. 11, '62; died Jan, 1, '63, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Shiffler, George P.. Pri., 23, Aug. 7, '62; died Oct. 30, '64, at Hunts- 
ville, Ala. 

Shreffler, Joseph, Pri., 17, Aug. 14, '62; died March 14, '64, at 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Sloan, Elzy E., Pri., 18, July 29, '62; captured Sept 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 
6, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Sloan, William B., Pri., 18, Aug. 12, '62; musiered out May 15, '65, 
at Louisville, K}., by order of War Department. 

Small, David, Pri., 23, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Steel, Elias C, Pri., 26, Aug. 7. '62, discharged May 2, '64, at 
Tullahoma, Tenn,, on Surgeon's certificate of disability 

Stillwagon, Daniel, Pri., 34, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with conpany 

Straub, George, Pri., 23, Aug. 20, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 25, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Straub, John B., Pri., 29, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with company. 

Strawsbaugh, Samuel, Pri,, 43, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, *64, 
in action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April, 27, '65. 

Ublrich, George W., Pri., 20, July 22, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
in action at A.thens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Underwood, James, Pri., 17, Aug. 1, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22. '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Urich, Christopher, Pri., 21, Aug. 19, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Weatherby, Thaddeus, Pri. ,21, Aug. 9, '62; mustered in as Musi- 
cian; discharged Jan. 2, '64, at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's 
certificate of disability. 

Wharf, Henry, Pri., 18, July 25, '62; discharged June 10, '63, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Whittaker, Abraham, Pri., 32, Aug. 13, '62; accidentally killed 
Dec. 25, '63, at Nashville, Tenn., by a wagon running over him. 

Williams, Abraham, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, '62; died Oct. 16, '64, at De- 
catur, Ala. 

Williams, James T., Pri., 25, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athena, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
"'Vnn A^ril 27. '65. 



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Williams, John W., Pri., 19, Aug-. 8, '62; discharg-ed Dec. 11, '62, 
at Bowling- Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Wolverton, Chauncy, Pri. 43, Aug. 13, '62; mustered out with 
company, 

Andrew J. Riggens, Cook 19, Mayl4, '63; colored under-cook, mus- 
tered out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 

Peter Dunlap, Cook, 21, Aug". 13, ,03; colored under-cook, mustered 
out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 



COMPANY E. 

Mustered in Sept. 6, 1862, at Coving-ton, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nasiiville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

Augustus W. Loback, Captain, 36, July 22, '62; wounded and cap- 
tured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., confined in stockade 
at Meridian, Miss . paroled Nov. 13, '64, exchanged Dec, 17, '64, 
rejoined regiment Jan. 2, '65, mustered out with company. 

James Riddle, 1st Lieutenant, 29, Aug. 13, '62; appointed Aug. 24, 
'62, killed Sept. 25, '63, by falling from railroad train, near Mur- 
freesboro, Tenn. 

Samuel B. Donel, 1st Lieutenant, 36, Aug. 8, '62; appointed 2d 
Lieutenant Aug. 24, '62, promoted to 1st Lieutenant April 23, 
'64, mustered outwith company. 

William A. Traxler, 1st Sergeant, 26, Aug-. 9, '62; captured Sept. 
24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Merapnis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Franklin G. Frary, Sergeant, 34, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Phillip L. Holton, Sergeant, 22. Aug. 9, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
in action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April 27. '65. 

David W. Kennedy, -Sergeant, 30, Aug. 12, '62; captured Sept. 24 
'64, in action at Athens, Ala., died March 15, '65, at Demopolis 
Ala., while a prisoner of war. 

Caleb F, Grice, Sergeant, 31, Aug. 13, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral June 1, '64, mustered out with company. 

Peter Wirick. Sergeant, 41. Aug-. 11, '62, appointed from Corporal 
A'ig. 1, '63, died May 18, '64, in hospital at TuUahoma, Tenn. 



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Robert M. Edg-ecomb, Corporal, 24, Aug. 8, '62; discharg-ed Jan. 

29, '63, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Nathaniel H. Ordway, Corporal, 40, Aug. 7, '62; died Dec. 14, '62, in 

Hospital No. 7 at Bowling Green, Ky. 
Samuel F. Whitman, Corporal, 21, Aug. 8, '62; discharged Feb, 27, 

'63, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Aaron B. Leedy, Corporal, 21, Aug. 11, '62; appointed Dec. 14, '62; 

mustered out with company. 
Harrison Wirick, Corporal, 23, Aug. 20, '62; appointed Jan. 29, '63; 

mustered out with company. 
Leander J. Niman; Corporal, 21, Aug. 22, '62, appointed May 22, 

'64; mustered out with company. 
Peter W. Shambaugh, Corporal, 22 Aug. 11, '62; appointed May 22, 

'64; mustered out with company. 
Jacob Beal, Corporal. 28, Aug. 17, '62; appointed Aug. 1, '64; killed 

Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala. 
John Divelbiss, Corporal, 21, Aug. 13, '62; appointed March 24, '63 

captured Sept, 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 

22, '65; perished by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi 

River, near Memphis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 
Jacob Irons, Corporel, 37, Aug. 7, '62; appointed April 12, '64, cap- 
tured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 

22, '65; perished by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi 

River, near Memphis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 
Jacob Bierly, Corporal, 17, Aug. 12, '62; appointed June 1, '64; 

captured Sept. 24, '64. in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 

22, '65; perished by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi 

River, near Memphis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Lambert Walsh, Musician, 18, Aug. 22, '62; mustered out with 

company. 
Jonathan Dorsey, Wagoner, 27, Aug. 13, '62; discharged Feb. 25, 

'63 at Russellville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate ot disability. 
Abcen, Thomas, Pri., 21, Aug. 14, '62; 
Algire, Henry F.,Pri., 20, Aug. 17, '62; died Jan. 4, '63. in Hospital 

No. 1, at Clarksville, Tenn. 
Algire, Samuel, Pri., 22, Aug. 29, '62. 

Aungst, Joseph, Pri.' 24, Aug. 22, '62; mustered out with company 
Baker, Isaac, Pri., 33, Aug. 13, 62; mustered out with company. 
Beal, Amos, Pri , 18, Aug. 18, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 

at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 

of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 

A.pril 27, '65. 
Beard, Job M., Pri., 27, Aug. 8, '62; reduced from Sergeant July 

31, '63; mustered out with company. 
Bixler, Sherman W., Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; transferred to Co. G, 

189th O. V. I., July 12, '65. 



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Bohon, William E., Pri. 19, Aug. 14, '62; died March 22, '63, st 
Russellville, Ky. 

Cassel, Caleb, P., Pri., 19, Aug. 14, '62; discharged Nov. 5, '62, 
at Louisvile, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Chamblin, Francis , Pri.., 18, Aug. 29, '62; died April 26, '63, io 
hospital at Clarksville, Tenn. 

Claudy, Martin vV., Pri,, 23, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Connelly, Henry C, Pri., 19, Aug, 20, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Couter, Elias, Pri., 28, Aug. 12, '62; captured Sept, 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion of 
steamer Sultana on Mississippi near Temphis, Tenn. April 22, '65 

Drake, John, Pri., 19, Aug. 13, '62; mustered out with company. 

Elders, Josiah, Pri., 22, Aug. 17, *62; drowned May 26, '63, in 
Cumberland River, at Clarksville, Tenn. 

Evers, Levi, Pri., 18, Aug. 18, '62; mustered out with company. 

Fike, Joshua, Pri., 27, Aug, 16, '62; discharged Sept. 18, '63, at 
Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of daability. 

Fleharty, Marion, Pri., 19, Aug. 1, '62; discharged May 23, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability, 

Fleming, John, Pri., 21, Aug, 11, '62; discharged Feb, 16, '63, at 
Bowling Green Ky, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Fry, Daniel B,, Pri,, 22, Aug, 13, '62; appointed Corporal March 
24, '64; reduced May 4, '64; captured Sept, 24, '64, in action at 
Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 29, '65, 
at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Fry, Samuel, Pri., 21, 7, Aug. 16, 62; mustered out with company. 

Garber, Daniel, Pri., 34, Aug, 18, *62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Gatton, Isaac, Pri., 21, Aug, 14, '62; mustered out with company. 

Geary, Thomas N., Pri., 18, Aug. 11,' 62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Geary, William. Pri. 35, Aug. 29, '62; discharg:ed Feb. 9, '63, at 
Russellville. Ky,, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Harsh, Sylvester D,, Pri., 18, Aug. 11, 63; died April 7, '63, in Hos- 
pital No. 2, at Clarksville, Tenn. 

Herring, John S., Pri,, 22, Aug. 12, '62. 

Hissong, Henry, Pri., Aug, 33, 14, '62;musterd out with company. 

Hollibaugh, Levi, Pri., 18, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 

Holton, William A., Pri., 18, Feb. 15 '64; transferred to Co. G, 

189th O. V. I., July 12, '65, 
Howard, William R., Pri., 23 Jan,19,'65; mustered out May 3 2, '65, 
at Columbus. O., by order of War Department. 



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Huston, Seerman, Pri., 31, Aug. 12, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 12, 'b5, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department, 

Ingham, Albert, Pri., 18, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with company. 

Kauffman, AlonzoR., Pri., 18, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Kcefer, John, ¥., Pri. 19, Aug. 17, '62; mustered out with company. 

Keellr, Isaac, Pri., 35, Aug. 13, '62; died Nov. 26, '62, in hospital 
ot Louisville, Ky. 

Kincaid, Benjaman, Pri., 25 Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 

Koon, Jacob, Pri., 20, Aug. 11, '62; died Feb. 17, *62, in General 
Hospital No. 2 at New Albany, Ind. 

Layman, Abraham, Pri. 21, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company 

Lemon, John, Pri., 18, Aug. 29, '62; died Aug. 11, '64, in 'private 
residence at Bellefonte, Ala. 

Lockhart, William, Pri., 18, Aug. 9. '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala , exchanged April 22, '66; on board steamer 
Sultana at time of explosion, April 27, '65, mustered out May 20 , 
*65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

McClay, William, Pri., 19, Aug. 16, '62; mustered out with company 
McCrory, John, Pri., 18, Aug. 20, '62; mustered out with company 
lVicKinney,Edward,,Pri.23Aug.22, '62; musneredout|with company 
Mackey, William, Pri., 20, Aug. 22, '62; died April 28, '63, in Post 

Hospital, at Clardsville, Tenn. 
Menser, Samuel, Pri., 18, Aug. 13, i62; died April 29, '64. in hospl- 
Miller, William A., Pri., 19, Dec, 31, '63; transferred to Co. G, 

189th O. V. L, July 12, '65. 
Moore, Lemuel, Pri., 25, Aug. 17, '63; reduced from Corporal April 

12. r6, mustered out May 25, '65, at Louisville, Ky., by order of 

War Department. 
Myers, John, Pri , 35, Aug. 11, '62; died March 10, '64, in hospital 

at Nashville, Tenn, 

Oldfied, Silas, Pri., 19, Aug. 18, '62; mustered out with compary. 
Oyster, Daniel, Pri., 28, Aug. 2, '62; transferred to Co. I, 120th O. 
V. I, Aug. 13, '62. 

Oyster, Simon, Pri., 18, Aug. 21, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by-explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Painter, Edwin, Pri., 22, Aug. 22, '62; mustered out with company 
Painter, George, Pri., 20, Aug. 18, '62; discharged Jan. '63, at St. 

Mo., to enlisi in Mississippi Marine Brigade. 
Randall, Austin S., Pri., 34, Aug. 12, '62; reduced from Corporal 

July 11, '63; mustered out with company. 



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Rankin, Joshua, Pri. 18, Aug-. 17, '62; mustered out with company. 

Reever, Joseph H., Pri., 19, Aug. 13, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
inaction at Athens. Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 28, '65 at Columbus, O., by order of vVar Department. 

Robinson, Samuel, Pri., 20, Aug-. 18, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Rowah, Daniel H. Pri., 18, Feb. 15, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
May 20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Sell, Levi, Pri., 23, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Shaffer, James, Pri., 29, Aug-. 22, '62; Died Nov. 15, '62, in hospital 
at New Albany, Ind. 

Shearer, Jonathan R., Pri., 21, Feb. 15, '64; mustered out July 24, 
'65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Shiner, Obadiah, Pri., 21, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company 

Simmons, Thomas J., Pri., 22, Aug. 11, '62; died Oct. 2, '62, in 
hospital at Cincinnati, O. 

Snyder, Peter, Jr. Pri. 31, Aug-. 11, '62; mustered out with company 

Staley George W. Pri., 31, Aug. 12, '62; discharged Feb. 27, '63, 
on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Stevens, Henry, Pri., 26, Aug. 16, '62; died Aprils, '63, in Post 
Hospital at Clarksville, Tenn. 

Stone, John F., Pri., 18, Feb. 15, '64; wounded Oct. 28, '64. in bat- 
tle at Decatur, Ala.; mustered out May 30, '65; at Camp Denni- 
son, O., by order of War Department, 

Stuff, B'rederick, Pri., 23, Aug-. 22, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens. Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Swank, Daniel L., Pri. 21, Aug-. 11, '62; appointed Corporal Aug, 1, 
'b3; reduced May 17, '64; died Jan. 7, '65, on floating hospital 
Ohio, at New Albany, Ind. 

Swank, Elias L., Pri., 19, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company 
Teeter, Peter, PH., 22, Aug. 11, '62, furloughed to Sept. 25, '62; 

no further record found 
Thompson, Miles J., -Pri. 17, Aug.'29, '62; wounded Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala , discharged Aug-. 11, '()5, at Tripler U. S. 
General Hospital, Columns, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disa- 
bility. 

Thompson, Samuel P., Pri., 27, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with 
pany. 

Traxler, Heman S., Pri., 22, Aug. 12, '62; reduced from Corporal 
March 24, '63, killed Sept, 24, '64; in action at Athens, Ala. 

Traxler, Lester, Pri., 27, Aug. 12. '62; mustered out May 27, '65, 
at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War Department, 



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Tarres, George, Pri.,20, Aug-. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 

Tressel, Leonard, Pri., 18, Aug-. 22, '62; transferred to Co. I, 
120th O. V. L, Sept. 4, '62. 

Van Buskirk, Samuel, Pri., 25, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out June 13, 
'65, at Columbus, O., by order of vVar Department. 

Walker, James W., Pri., 27, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company 

Walters, Leonard B., Pri., 18, Aug. 20, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Wheeler, Daniel, Pri. 17, Aug. 22, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Whitten, Samuel P., Pri., 21, Aug. 1, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Willis, William W., Pri., 29, Aug. 22, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
inaction at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Wolford, Oliver S. Pri. 33, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company 

Wolford, Samuel D., Pri., 25, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out June 1, 
'65, at Louisville, Ky., by order of War Department. 

Wolford, William H., Pri., 29, Aug. 11. '62; no further record found 

Worley, George, Pri., 23, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with company 

Yeisley, William; Pri., 19 Aug. 13, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Alfred Dunlap, Cook, 18, May 25, '63; colored under-cook, mustered 
out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 

Squire Bradley, Cook, 32, May 25, '63; colored under-cook. 



COMPANY F. 

Mustered in Sept. 6, 1862, at Covington, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nashville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

John W. Siout, Captain, 24, July 23, '62; resigned Jan. 19, '63, on 

Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Harrison H. Rowe, Captain, 23, July 23, '62; promoted from 2d 

Lieutenant, Jan. 19, '63; on detached service as Act. Inspector 

General 1st Brigade, Rosseau's Division, Feb. 11, '64; mustered 

out with company. 



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Simon B. Kinton, 1st Lieutenant, 55, July 23, '62; appointed July 
28, '62; resigned Dec, 22, '02, on Surgeon's certificate of disability 

Silas B, Johnston, 1st Lieutenant, 25, Aug. 1 '62; promoted from 1st 
Sergeant Dec. 22, '62; mustered out with company. 

Robert Sands, 2d Lieutenant, 27, July 24, '62; promoted from ist 
Sergeant Jan. 19, '63, to 1st Lieutenant Co. A, to date Sept. 8, '64. 

John C. Duncan, 2d Lieutenant, 26, Aug. 5, '62; promoted from Ser- 
geant Major Sept. 8, '64; mustered out with company. 

James F. Hughes, 1st Sergeant, 23, July 29, '62; appointed from 
Sergeant Dec. 22, '62; mustered out with company. 

Henry A. Miller, Sergeant, 22, Aug, 6, '62; appointed from Corpo- 
ral, June 1, '64; mustered cut with company. 

John W. Robinson, Sergeant, 27, Aug. 6, '62; appointed Corporal, 
Feb. 28, ^63; Sergeant July 10, '64, mustered out with company. 

Rollin V. Bowers, Sergeant, 22, July 26, '62; appointed Corporal 
June 5, '63; Sergeant July 10. '64 mustered out with company. 

Isaac J. Bechtel, Sergeant, 22; Aug, 4, '62; appointed from Corporal 
Feb. 28, '63; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., 
exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 10, '65, at Camp 
Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Francis M. Rowe, Corporal 21, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

William Maple, Corporal, 25, Aug. 7, '62; discharged June 7, '64, 
at Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disabilty. 

Simon V. Carlin, Corporal 25, Aug. 7. '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Peter M. Shaw, Corporal, 21, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Jacob Weiker, Corporal, 19, July 26, '62; appointed May 31, '64; 
mustered out with company. 

John Boyer, Corporal, 19, Aug. 6, '62; appointed June 7, '64; mus- 
tered out with company. 

Isaac N. Peppard, Corporal, 24, July 30, '62, appointed July 10, '64, 
musnered out with company. 

George Kerr, Corporal, 21, Aug. 8, '62; appointed May 30, '65; mus- 
tered out with company. 

John W. Baumgardner. Corporal, 18, Aug. 7, '62; appointed May 
30, '65; mustered out with company. 

Charles B. Funk, Corporal, 25, July 29, '62; appointed Jan. 11, '64; 
mustered out May 30, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War 
Department, 

Jeremiah D. Miller, Musician, 23, Aug. 6, '62; promoted to Princi- 
pal Musician Aug. 7, '62; reduced to ranks Jan. 14, '63; mustered 
out to date June 30, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War De- 
partment. 



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Lewis C. Griffin, Musician, 20, Aug, 7, '62; discharg-ed Feb. 15, '64, 
at Camp Dennison, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Anderson, George, PH., 22. Aug. 6, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
May 20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department 

Anderson, John McD., Pri., 20, Aug. 2, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Barnard, Emory. Pri., 26, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company 

Barnard, Jacob S., Pri., 20, Aug. 6, 62; discharged May 1, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Bechtel, David W.,Pri., 19, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with company 

Bechtel. George H., Pri., 20, Aug. 4, '62; discharged May 1. '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate ot disability. 

Bechtel, Tillman O.. Pri., 21, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Biggs, Abraham, Pri., 19, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 
June 12, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Blessing, John H., Pri., 33, Aug. 5, '63; discharged July 4, '63 
at Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Boney, Smith, Pri., 21, July 31, '62; mustered out with company. 

Bortle, John, Pri., 26, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Boyer, Joseph C, Pri., 24, Aug. 6, '62; discharged Aug. 7, '64, at 
Nashville, Tenn., to accept commission in 12th Tennessee Cav- 
alry. 

Branstetter, Daniel, Pri. 23, Aug. 3, '62 mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Brown, John W., Pri., 21, Aug. 7, '62. 

Bunting, George W., Pri., 23, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out May 25, 
'65, at Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Carr, Joshua, Pri., 23, Jan. 8, '64; transferred to Co. B, 189th O. V, 
I., July 12, '65. 

Chapman, Joseph, Pri., 19, Aug. 6, 62; mustered out July 3, '65, 
at Columbus., O., by order of War Department. 

Chubb, Adam, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, *63; mustered out with company. 

Chubb, James, Pri., 18, Aug, 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Christian, Nicholas, Pri. 28, Aug. 1, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Collier, John, W., Pri, 19, Aug. 1, '62; mustered out with company 
Conner, John R., Pri., 21, Aug. 7, '62; discharged Jan. 24, '63, at 

Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Craven, William, Pri., 19, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company 
Disterheff , John C. Pri., 23, Aug. 7, '62; died Apr. 17. '63, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. 



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Foltz, Henry, Pri. 39, July 24, *G2; mustered out June 24, '65, at 
HuntsvlUe, Ala., by order of War Department. 

Forster, Thomas H., Pri., 18, July 28, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Fouch, Darius J. Pri. 18, Aug-, 1, '62; mustered out with company. 

Gallaway, John R., Pr., 18, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out to date June 
30, '65, by order of War Department. 

Garrett, Alfred, Pri. 18, July 24, '62; mustered out with company. 

Gasser, Christian, Pri., 37, July 26, '62, mustered out with company 

Goodridge, Stephen M., Pri., 32, July 25, '62; appointed Sergeant 
from Corporal Jan. 11, '64; captured July 10, '64 at Coffey's 
Landing, Ala., killed by his captors about July 15, '64. 

Gray, John A., Pri., 33 Aug, 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Harry, Augustus, Pri., 29, -Aug. 4, '62; transferred to Co. I, 11th 
Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, April 10, '64; mustered out 
July 7, '65 at Plattsburg, N. Y., by order of War Department. 

Heatherington, Henry, Pri., 19, Jan. 31, '65, 1 year; transferred 
to Co. B, 189th O. V, I., July 12, '65. 

Henning, Jefferson, Pri. 20, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with company 

Hessler, Charles H., Pri., 28, July 26, '62; reduced from Corporal 
June 5, '63; mustered out with company. 

Hook, Josiah. Pri., 26, Aug. 4. '62; mustered out with company. 

Houston, David R., Pri., 21, April 4, '64; transferred to Co. B, 189th 
O. V. L, July 12, '65. 

Hubler, Franklin, Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company 

Jackson, John G. Pri. 20, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company 

Jackson, Richard, Pri. 22, Aug-. 8, '62; mustered out with company 

Keeler, William, Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Kerstetter, William J., Pri. 18, Dec. 21, '63, transferred to Co. 
K, Feb 28, '64. 

Kintner, Daniel, Pri., 23, Aug-. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 

Kramer, David, Pri., 25, July 29, '62; appointed. Sergeant, Aug. 18, 
'62; captured July 10, '64, at Coffey's Landing, Ala., killed by 
his captors about July 15, '64. 

Latimer, William, Pri., 18, Aug-. 4, 62, mustered out with company 

Lehman, Daniel, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, '62. mustered out June 29, '65, at 
Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Lehman, Henry, Pri., 24, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with company. 

Lerue, John H., Pri., 18, July 28, '62; mustered out with company. 

Lewis, Orlando D,. Pri., 18, Jan. 4, '64; mustered out May 14, '65, 
at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 




CAPTAIN ISAAC HARPSTER 



R Rr^OR O Captain Co. G, 102d O V. I.; enlisted 

July 23, 1862; a.ge 40; 3 years; resig^ned 

March 22, 1863, at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certifi- 
cate of disability. 



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McGifl&n, Andrew, Pri., 23. Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with company 

McMonigal, James, Pri., 44, Feb. 16, '64; died March 11, '65 in 
Holmes County, O. 

McMonigal, William H., Pri., 32, July 30, '62; promoted to Sergt. 
Major Aug. 18, '62. 

Markel, John, Pri., 21, July 25, '63; mustered out with company. 

Matthews, Charles R., Pri., 19, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Mentzer, Abel, Pri., 36, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with company. 

Merkel, Orlando, Pri., 23,July 28, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 22, '65 at Camp Chase, O., by order of WarDepartment. 

Motin. Daniel, Pri., 24, July 31, '62; mustered out with company. 

Mower, Jacob, Pri., 32, Aug. 6, 62; mustered out with company. 

Mowrer, Jessiah, Pri., 39, Aug. 5, '62; died Dec. 21, '62, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Musser, David, Pri., 34, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Patterson, Neal, Pri., 8, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company.} 

Prentiss, George A., Pri., 18, Aug. 28, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Radenbaugh, John, Pri., 32, July 30, '62; reduced from Sergeant 
Jan 11, '64; mustered out to date from June 30, '65, by order of 
War Department. 

Rffle, George W., Pri., 18, Jan. 11. '64; mustered out May 15, '65. 
at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 

Robison, Jacob H., Pri., 21, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; paroled -; died April 8, '65, at Jeff- 
erson Barracks, Mo. 

Robison, James C, Pri. 30, Jan. 26, '64; transferred to Co. B. 189th 
O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Sabin, DeWitt C, Pri., 20, Aug. 5, '62; died Jan. 10, '63, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Sabin, Isaac L., Pri. 19, Aug. 5, '62 mustered out with company. 

Saunders, Ignatius, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, 26; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 
20, '65, at Columbus, O.. by order of War War Department. 

Senche, Frederick, Pri., 21, Aug. 4, '62; died Oct. 20, '65, at Deca- 
tur, Ala. 

Shepperly, George, Pri, 22, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Shoup, Charles W., Pri., 18, Aug. 4, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 



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Shoup, Samuel K., Pri., 21, Aug-. 4, '62; discharged March 1, '63, 

at Russell ville, Ky., on Surg-eon's certificate of disability.* 
Shreve, Richard T., Pri., 19, Jan. 11, 'G4; transferred to Co. B, 

189rh O. V. I., July 12, '65. 
Sidle, Henry Pri., 21, Aug-. 6, '62; captured Sept, 24, '64, in action 

at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 

of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 

April 27, '65. 
Smetzer, Andrew, Pri., 38, Jan. 26, '(>4; mustered out May 25, '65, 

at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 
Smetzer, Obed, Pri., 27, Aug-. 7, 62; mustered out with company. 
Smith, Jackson, Pri., 19, March 2, '62, 1 year; transferred to Co. B, 

189fh O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Smith, Oliver P., Pri. 18, Aug-, 4, '62; died March 6, '65, at Hunts- 
ville, Ala. 

Snyder, Henry, Pr., 32, Aug-. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 
Stahl, Joseph, -Pri., 37, Aug, 7, '62; died March 24, '64, at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

Stine, David G., Pri., 23, -Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Swartz, Thomas, Pri. 18, July 28, '62; mustered out May 14, '65, at 
HuQtsville, Ala., by order of War Departm^n!:. 

Torbett, Robert, Pri., 19, Aug. 5, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 22, '65. 

Wadsworth, Samuel B., Pri , 36, Aug. 6. '62; mustered in as Wag- 
oner; mustered out with company. 

Weiker, William, Pri., 18, July 26, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 19, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Winkler, David, Pri. 19, March 2, '65, 1 year; transferred to Co. B, 
189th O. V. L, July 12, '65. 

Winkler, James J., Pri., 19, Aug. 7, '62; died July 12, '65, at Post 
Hospital, Huntsville, Ala. 

Wise, John N., Pri., 23, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Yost, Michael, Pri., 23, Aug. 6, '62; transferred to Co. A, 8th 

Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, — ; mustered out July 2, 

'65. at Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111., by order of War Department. 

William Wilson, Cook, Sept. 25, '63; colored under-cook. 



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COMPANY G. 

Mustered in Sept. 6, 1862, at Covington, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nashville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

Isaac Harpst.er, Captain, 40, July 23, '62; resigned March 23, '63, 

on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Aaron Waits, Captain, 41, July 23, '62; promoted to 1st Lieutenant 

from 2d Lieutenant Dec. 19, '62; Captain to date March 19, '63; 

mustered out with company. 

James H. VanBrocklin, 1st Lieutenant, 43, July 23, '62; resigned 
Dec. 19, '62, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Isaac C. Martin, 1st Lieutenant. 37, July 28, '62; promoted to 2d 
Lieutenant from 1st Sergeant Dec. 19, '62; to 1st Lieutenant 
May 19, '63; mustered out with company, 

Thomas B. Bird, 2d Lieutenant, -20, Aug. 11, '62; promoted from 
Sergeant, Dec. 1, '63; mustered out with company. 

William McClure, 1st Sergeant, 33, July 30, '62; appointed from 
Sergeant Dec. 19, '63; mustered out with company. 

William Hoyman, Sergeant, 25, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Andrew J. Porter, Sergeant, 34, July 31, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral Dec. 19, '62, discharged Feb. 7, '63, at Bowling Green, Ky. 

David Hites, Sergeant, 34, Aug, 11, '62; appointed from Corporal, 
April 2, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala.; ex- 
changed April 22, '65; mustered out May 24, '65, at Camp Chase, 
O., by order of iiVar Department. 

Joseph R., Harris, Sergeant, 25, Aug. 14, '62; appointed from Cor- 
May 14, '64; mustered out with company. 

William Fox, Sergeant, 38, Aug. 14, '62; discharged April 2, '64 at 
Nashville, Tenn , on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Jarob Lenocker, Sergeant, 22, July 28, '62; appointed from Corpo- 
ral Feb. 5, '63; mustered out with company. 

Pliny M. Hoagland, Corporal, 18, July 28, '62; died Dec. 28, '62, at 
Louisivlle, Ky. 

Joseph A. Harris, Corporal, 28, Aug. 14, '62; discharged Jan. 9, 
'63, at Bowling Green, Ky. 

David Allison. Corporal, 34, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

David Williams, Corporal, 25, Aug. 11, '62; appointed Jan. 5, *63; 

mustered out with company. 
Elijah Wallick, Corporal, 31, -Aug. 9, '62; appointed Dec. 19, '62; 

captued Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 

22, '65; mustered out June 19, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order 

of War Department. 



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Squire Frazier, Corporal, 35, Aug-. 8, '62; appointed Feb. 5, '63; cap- 
tured Sept. 24, '(.4, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 
22, '65; mustered out June 19, '65 at Camp Chase, O., by order of 
War Department. 

William K. Duer, Corporal, 23, Aug. 12, '62; appointed May 1, '64, 
mustered out with company. 

William Moore, Corporal, 25, Aug. 13 '62; appointed Nov. 1, *64; 
mustered out with company. 

Dixon W. Jones, Corporal, 43, July 28, *G2; captured Sept, 24, '64, 
in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, 'G5; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Harrison Hague, Corporal, 21, Aug. 11, '62; also borne on rolls as 
Isaac H. Hague; appointed Dec. — , '62; mustered out May 30, 
'65, at Huntsville; Ala.,iby order of War Department. 

John F. Hudson, Corporal. 19, Aug. 13, '02; appointed Dec. 19, 'G2, 
promoted to Sergt. Major Nov. 1, '64. 

Alban, Joseph P., Pri., 22, Aug. 6, '62; also borne on rolls as James 
P. Alban mustered out May May 19, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., by 
order of War Department. 

Albright, Felix D., Pri., 19, Aug. 6, '63; mustered out with company 
Albright, Oliver H. Pri., 22, Aug-. 6, 62; mustered out with company 
Arnold, John, Pri. 19, Aug, 14, '62; mustered oat with company. 
Beall, Cornelius, Pri., 22,§Aug. 8, '62; discharged Jan. 6, '63 at 
Bowling Green, K., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Beatty, William L., Pri., 18, Aug, 13, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Bell, Henry H., Pri., 23, Aug. 13, '62; reduced from Corporal , 

mustered out with company. 
Bell, Russell H., Pri., 28, Aug. 14, '62; discharged Jan. 10, '63, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Bell, Samuel, Pri , 36, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company. 
Black, George A., Pri., 28, Aug. 13, '62; discharged Dec. 20, '62, at 

Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Booth, Erceldoun, Pri., 19, Aug. 13, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Bowser, Chasteen, Pri., 20, Feb. 25, '64, also borne on rolls as 
Christian Bowser, mustered out July 20, '65, at Louisville, Ky., 
by order of War Department. 

Brown, John G., Pri., 20, Aug-. 26, '62; mustered out with company 

Casey, John, Pri. 21, Aug. 6, '62, mustered out with company. 

Chapman, Thomas, Pri., 40, July 28, '62, discharged Feb. 1, '63 
at Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 



S3 

Cordray, Samuel, Pri., 33, July 29, '62; transferred to Co. H, IGth 
Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, April 15, 64, mustered out 
July 5, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

CuUen, Matthias, Pri., 35, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with company. 

Davidson, Joseph Pri., 18, Feb. 14, '62; transferred to Co. E, 189th 
O. V. I , July 12, '65. 

Davidson, William A., Pri., 20, Aug. 14, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Derringer, David, Pri., 25, Aug. 6, '62. 

Durbin, Elisha, Pri., 44, Aug. 5, '62; discharged May 5, *63, at 
Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Englehart George, Pri., 19, Aug. 11, '62 mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Evans, Samuel, Pri. 32, Aug. 16, '62; rejected by examining Sur- 
geon. 

Fetrovv, Andrew J., Pri., 30, Aug. 13, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Finley, Robert, Pri., 18, Feb. 22, '64; transferred to Co. E, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Flack, Robert J., Pri., 27, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out May 19, '65, 
at Nashville, Tenn., by order of War Department. 

Fox, John W., Pri., 26, Aug. 14, '62; mustered out with company. 

Graefe Theodore, Pri., 22, Feb. 22, '64; transferred, to Co. E, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Griffin, Elijah, Pri., 20, Dee. 12, '63; transferred to Co. K, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12. '65. 

Hanna, John F., Pri. 19, Aug. 13, '62; mustered out with company. 

lianna, Robert Mac, Pri., 18, Feb. 23, '64; transferred to Co. E, 
189th O. V. L, July 12, '65. 

Harbaugh, James, Pri., 19, Aug. 13, '62; rejected by examining 
Surgeon. 

Harris, Isaac, Pri., 23, Aug. 12, 62, mustered out with company. 

Harris, James Mc, Pri., 27, Aug. 14, '62; died Jan. 26, '65, at De- 
catur, Ala. 

Harris, Jonathan A., Pri., 27, Aug. 14, '62; mustered out June 29, 
'65, at Calumbus. O., by order of War Department. 

Harrison, Thomas B., Pri., 37, Feb. 27, '64; mustered out June 26, 
'b5, at Louisbiile, Ky., by order of War Department. 

Haynes, James, Pri., 36, Aug, 12, '62; discharged Aug. 21, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Henderson, Samuel, Pri. 24, Feb. 23, '64; mustered out March 13, 
'65. at Decatur, Ala., by order of War Department. 

Highshew, William, Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; rejected by examining 
Surgeon. 

Hoffer, Jacob P., Pri., 18, Feb, 23, '64; transferred to Co. E, 1891h 
O. V. I., July 12, '65. 



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Holderbaum, John W., Pri., 18, Aug. 31, '64, 1 year; mustered out 
June 12, '65, at Columbus, O.. by order of War Department. 
^ Homer, Benjamin F., Pri,, 26, Aug. 26, '62; mustered out with 

company. 

Ing-raham, Elbert O,, Pri. 32, Aug-. 7, '62; also borne on rolls as 
Albert O. Ingham. 

Justice, Adam, 'Pri., 18, Aug. 5, '62; rejected by examining Sur- 
geon. 

Kelly, Charles, Pri., 47, Aug. 6, 62; rejected by examining Sur- 
geon. 

Korns, Silas W., Pri., 19, Aug. 14, '62; mustered out with company 

Kron, Jacob, PH., 19, Feb. 25. '65; transferred to Co. E. 189th O. 
V. I., July 12, '65. 

Lautenslager, Leonard, Pri, 21, Aug. 18, '62; died Nov 24, '62, ac 
Bowling Green, Ky., 

Leighland, Daniel, Pri, 24, Aug. 9, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; died April 3. '65, on hospital boat. 

Lewis, Alfred- J., Pri., 19, Aug. 6, '62; mustered with out company 

Lightfoot, George W., Pri., 19. Aug. 8 '(>2; transferred to Co. H, 
120th O. V. I., Aug. 8, '62. 

Lisle, James, Pri. ,[28, Aug. 15, '62; discharged Jan. 20, '63, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Ling, Charles M., Pri., 33, Aug. 4, '62; died Dec. 11, '62, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky. 

Livingston, David, Pri., 37, Aug. 13> '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Ludlow, Amos B., Pri., 23, Aug. 14, '62; died Dec. 23, '62, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky. 

McClurg, Hamilton, Pri., 23, Aug.^14, 62; promoted Hospital Stew- 
ard May 7, '63. 

McKee, Henry B., Pri. 21, Aug, 15, '62; died Dec. 3, '62, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky. 

Marietta, Jonathan, P., Pri., 27, Aug. 16 '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Marteeney, Isaac, Pri.,37, Aug, 7, '62; discharged Feb. 2, '63, at 
Bowling Green. Ky., on Surgeon's certficate of disabilty. 

Martin, Charles B.Pri. 36, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company 

Martin, Frank H., Pri., 18, Feb. 23, '64; transferred to Co. E, 189th 
O. V. L, July 12, '65. 

Martin, John A., Pri., 44, Aug. 15, '62; discharged March 2, '64, at 
Clarksville, Tenn. 

Martin, Lewis C, Pri. 18, Feb. 23, '64; mustered out May 30, '65' 

at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 
Martin, Robert W., Pri., July 31, '62; mustered out with company. 



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Melott, Sylvester, C, Pri., 18; Aug. 15, '62; mustered in as Musi- 
cian; died Jan. 9, '63, at Russellville, Ky. 

Molebash, JosepU Pri., 26, Aug. 31, '62; died Not. 19, '62, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky. 

Morris, Benjamin F., Pri. 28, Feb. 23. '64; mustered out July 24, 
'65 at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Mowrey, James, Pri., 37, Aug. 27, '62; discharged Nov. 5, '63, at 
Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Mullett, John, Pri., 29, July 29,''62;. captured Sept 24, '64, in action 
at Athens,iAla.; died Oct. 25, '64, in Rebel Prison at Cahaba, Ala. 

Painter, Alfred C, Pri., 19, Aug. 6, 62; discharged Jan. 31, '63, at 
Louisville, Ky , on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Perkey, Benjamin F., Pri., 20, Aug. 13, '62; died Feb. 2, '63, at 
Louisville, Ky. 

Ports, Charles, Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company. 

Powelson, Louis, Pri., 28, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out May 15, '65 
at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War-Department. 

Price, Simon P., Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept, 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Bennington, Lucius, Pri., 42, Feb. 22, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64 in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; died June 7, '65, 
at U. S. General Hospital, Jefferson Barracks, Mo, 

Reynolds, Wilson, Pri.; 18, Aug. 26, '62, died Feb. 6, '63, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. 

Rose, Jacob S., Pri., 18, Aug. 16, '62; captured Sept. 24, *64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala. exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explo 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Rowe, Cornelius, Pri., 21, Aug. 16, '62. 

Shrader, John, Pri., 19, Aug. 14, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Shaw, Samuel, Pri., 18, |Aug. 1, '62; discharged Feb. 11, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Shilts, Henry, Pri., 35, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with company. 

Shultz, George G., Pri., 18, Aug. 31, '64; mustered out with company 

Sleggle, Ezra K., Pri., 22, Aug. 14, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Smith, Charles O., Pri., 18, Feb. 23, '64; transferred to Co. F, 
189th O. V. I., July 12, '65. 



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Smith, Henry H., Pri., 44, July 24, '62; died Nov, 7, '62, at Bowlings 
Green, Ky. 

Smith, William, Pri. 21, Feb. 23, '64; transferred to Co. E, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Sowers, John, Pri., 44, Aug. 15, '62; never mustered. 

Spitler, Wesley, Pri., 18, Feb. 23, '64, mustered out June 28, '65, 
at Louisville, Ky., by order of iVar Department. 

Stephens, Samuel, Pri.28, July 14,'62; captured Sept, 24, '64, in action 
at Athens. Ala., exchang-ed April 22, '65; perished by explosion 
of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn. 
April 27, '65. 

Strone, Jacob J., Pri., 18, Aug. 16, '62; rejected by examining Sur- 
geon. 

Strone, Joseph, Pri., 20, Aug. 16, '62; mustered out May 17, '65, at 
Stevenson, Ala. by order of War Department. 

Swoveland, Jacob, Pri., 23, Aug. 7, '62; rejected by examining 
Surgeon. 

Taylor, Harvey R., Pri., 21, Aug. 15, '62; killed Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala. 

Tetters, Washington, Pri., 24, Aug. 12, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64. 
in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 19, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Thomas, Joseph, Pri., 27, Aug. 14, '62, rejected by examining 
geon. 

Tidball, James W.. Pri., 24, July 26, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Traster, Samuel, Pri., 24, Aug. 10, '62; discharged Dec. 10, '62, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Trussel, Isaac, Pri., 42, Feb. 23, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., died March 3, '65, at Selma, Ala. 

Vance, Isaac W., Pri.. 27, Aug. 26, '62; discharged April 10, '63, 
at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Wachtel, Henry H., Pri., 22, Sept. 1, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
inaction at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 29, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Wallace, William H., Pri., 32, Jan. 4, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 
May 20, '65, at Columbus, O.. by order of War Department. 

Wallick, David H., Pri., 30, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company 
Warner, Michael, Pri., 43, Aug. 13, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 

action at Athens, Ala.; died March 17, '65, in Rebel Prison at An- 

dersonville, Ga. 

White, William, Pri., 22, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company. 
Williams, Isaac, Pri. 22, Aug. 15, '62; rejected by examining Sur- 
geon. 




JONAS D. ELLIOTT 



R Fr^OR O Captain. Co. H, 102d O. V. I.; enlisted 

July 23, 1862 a^e 22; 3 j^ears; promoted 

to Major March 6. lS(i3; Lieut. Colonel April 23, 1864; died 
Oct 13. 1864. of wounds received Sept. 21. 1864. in action at 
Athens. .\la. 



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Williams. John H., Pri., 27, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., died April 21, '65, at St. Louis, Mo. 

Williams, Martin, Pri., 28, Aug. 11, '62; captured Sept. '24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 19, '65 at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Williams, Thomas, Pri., 21, Aug. 11, '62; rejected by examining 
Surgeon. 

Winterbottom, William, S. Pri., 32, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out to 
date June 30, '65, by order of War Department. 

Woodruft, Isaac, Pri., 24, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Young, Hiram, Pri., 38, Aug. 15, '62; rejected by examining Sur- 
geon. 

John Baker, Cook, 21, May 13, '63; mustered out June 30, '65, as 
supernumerary. 

Henry Herring, Cook, 30, May 13, '63; died April 12, 1864, at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 



COMPANY H. 

Mustered in Sept. (J, 1862, at Coving-ton, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nasiiville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

I3ivision 4th Army Corps. 

Jonas D. Elliott, Captain, 22, July 23, '62; promoted to Major March 

6, '63. 
Edward W. Bradley, Captain, 44, July 23, '62; promoted from 1st 

Lieutenant March 6, '63; mustered out with company. 
Eli A. Palmer, 1st Lieutenant, 21, Aug. 6, '62; promoted to 2d 

Lieutenant from 1st Sergeant Nov. 17, '62; 1st Lieutenant Mch. 

6, '63; mustered out with company. 
James Mr.Nulty, 2d Lieutenant, 30, July 23, '62; resigned Nov. 17, 

'62. 
Patterson V. Wilkinson, 2d Lieutenant, 22, July 24, '62; appointed 

1st Sergeant from Sergeant Nov, 17, '62; promoted to 2d Lieu- 
tenant April 17, '63; mustered out with company. 
Florien Giauque, 1st Sergeant, 19, Aug, 7, '62; appointed Sergeant 

from Corporal July 8, '63; 1st Sergeant June 1, '64; mustered iiut 

with company. 
Edsil Milhon, Sergeant, 31, July 31, '62; discharged Feb. 9, '63 at 

Russellville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
George W. Streby, Sergeant, 37, Aug. 5, '62; discharged Sept. 21, 

'64, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 



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William H. Rose, Sergeant, 18, Aug. 2, '62; discharged Sept. 27, '62, 
at Louisville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disabilty. 

George W. Burdett. Sergeant. 21, July 24, '63; appointed Corporal 
Sept. 27, '62; Sergeant Aug, 25, '63; mustered out with company. 

John Johnston, Sergeant, 20, Aug. 8, '62; appointed from Corporal 
June 30, '64; mustered out with company. 

George W. Deatrick, Sergeant. 25, July 31, '62; appointed Carporal 
Sept. 27, '62, Sergeant Sept. 21, '64; mustered out with company. 

Michaels. Cramer, Sergeant, 25, July 31, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral Nov. 17, '62; discharged May 2, '64, at Cincinnati, O., on 
Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

George W. Laughridge, Sergeant, 18, Aug, 6, '62; appointed 1st Ser- 
geant from Corporal June 1, '63; reduced to Sergeant June 1, 
'64, mustered out with company. 

William H. Mauk, Corporal, 24, July, 24, '62; appointed Jan. 13, 
'64, captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged 
April 22, '65; mustered out June 19, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by 
order of vVar Department. 

Cyrus Lowry, Corporal, 22, Aug. 7, '62; appointed Jan. 13, '64; 
mustered out with company. 

George Brown, Corporal, 25, Aug. 8, '62; appointed June 30, '64; 
mustered out with company. 

William C. Hutchison, Corporal, 21, Aug. '7, '62; appointed Sept. 21, 
'64; mustered out with company. 

Thomas J. Longsdorf, Corporal, 18, Feb. 25, '64; appointedMay 1, 
'65; mustered out July 12, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., as supernu- 
merary. 

George S. Hutchison; Corporal, 18, Feb. 25, '64; appointed May 1, 
'65; mustered out July 12, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., as supernu- 
merary. 

Truman L. Firestone, Corporal, 18, April 4, '64; appointed May 1, 
'65; mustered out July 12, '65. at Huntsville, Ala., as supernu- 
merary. 

John C. Hall, Corporal, 22, Feb. 28, '65. appointed May 1, '65, mus- 
out July 12, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., as supernumerary. 

Jonas Huntsberger, Corporal, 21, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 
24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65. 
perished by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, 
near Memphis, Tenn. April 27, '65. 

Benjamin Musser, Corporal, 19, Aug. 6, '62; captured Sept, 24, 
'64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Gideon Harrington, Corporal, 32, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, 
'64, in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 



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Ammon, David, Pri., 34, Aug-. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 

Amsbaugh, Robert, Pri., 18, Aug-. 6, '62, died July 25, '63, at 
ClarKsville, Tenn. 

Bahl, Henry, Pri., 23, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 
of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn,, 
April 27, '65. 

Baney, John, Pri.. 29, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 
of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 
April 27, '65. 

Bardon, Otto, Pri., 21, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '65, in action 
at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 
20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Baughman, Joseph, Pri., 31, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company 

Black, Harris D., Pri., 22, Aug. 8, '62; discharged March 2, '64, 
on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Bolus, John, Pri. 19, Feb. 28, '64; transferred to Co. G, 189th O. V. 
I., July 12, '65. 

Boon, Samuel C, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '64; mustered out May 
20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Departm ent. 

Boon, David C. Pri., 19, Aug. 5, 62, discharged April 3, '63, at Lou- 
isville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Boon, William S., Pri., 18, Aug. 2, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
May 20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Brenizer, Amos, Pri., 18, Aug. 6, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Brenizer, David T., Pri., 43, Feb. 25, '64, 1 year; captured Sept. 24, 
'64, in action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Bricker, William, M., Pri., 18, Aug. 6, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65, mustered out 
June 12, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Brown, William L., Pri, 18, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 19, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Burress, John J., Pri, 43, Feb. 27, '65, 1 year; transferred to Co. 
G, 189th O. V. I , July 12, '65. 

Campbell, Jacob, Pri., 18, Aug. 6, '62, discharged Jan. 9, '63, at 

Bowling; Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Christine, Harmon, Pri., 21. Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 



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Danner, John, Pri., 19, Aug. 2, '63; mustered out with company. 
Banner, Rudolph, Pri., 18, Aug. 2, 62; mustered out with company. 
Dice, Archibald, H., Pri. 23, Feb, 28, '65, 1 year; transferred to 
Co. G, 189th O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Dravenstott, Joseph, Pri., 19, Aug-. 7 '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Duffey, John, Pri., 41, Aug, 6, '63; mustered out May 14, '65, at 
Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 

Fitch, James, Pri. 46, July 28, '62; discharged April 10, '65, at Co- 
lumbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Fogleson, Schiller, Pri., 19, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company 

France, Otis B., Pri., 20, Aug. 8, '62; discharged Sept. 14, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Fry, James C, Pri., 20, Aug. 6, '62; discharged Feb. 20, '63, at 
Russellville; Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Geddel, John, Pri., 21, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Green, James W, Pri.. 18, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with company. 

Hamilton, Isaac A. Pri., 20, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company 

Hamilton, Thomas S., Pri., 19, Aug. 8, '62; reduced from Corporal 
Jan. 11, '64; mustered out with company. 

Harrington, Solomon O., Pri., 48, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out May 
30, '65 at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 

Heim, Alexander, Pri., 20, March 28, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, at 
Athens; Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 10, 
'65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Howenstine, David, Pri. 18, Aug. 8, 62, mustered out with company 
Hunter, Isaac A., Pri., 23, July 31, '62; mustered out with company 
Hurting, David B., Pri., 28, Oct. 13, '64; transferred to Co. G, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12, '65 

Hurting, John, Pri., 18, Aug. 6, '62; died Dec. 14, '62, at Louisville. 
Hutchison, James, Pri., 31, Aug. 7, '62, mustered out with company 
Johnson, Alexander, Pri., 24. Aug. 8 '(>2; mustered as Musician. 
Keyser, Edmund, Pri,, 28, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company 
Kilgore, George S. Pri, 18, Aug. 2, '62; mustered out with company 
Knox, Robert M., Pri. 21, Aug. 8, '62; discharged Feb. 15, '64, at 
Nashville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability- 

Landis, Robert C, Pri., 28, Aug. 7, '62; mustered in as Wagoner, 
captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala., died April 4, 
'65, on hospital steamer R. C. Wood. 

Longsdorf, Samuel M., Pri, 18, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Loop, Wilson S., Pri., 24, Oct. 12, '64; transferred lo Co. G, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12, '65. 



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Lower, Joseph, Pri., 22, Aug. 8, '62; died Jan. 8, '03, at Bowling 

Green, Kj. 
Lowry, John H.. Pri., 33, Oct. 13, '64; transferred to Co. G, 189th 

O. V. 1., July 12, '65. 
McAnaney, Hugh, Pri., 37, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with company 
McAnaney, Patrick H., Pri., 19, Aug. 8, '62; reduced from Corpo- 
ral July 5, '62; mustered out with company. 
McCaughey, Thomas C, Pri. 21, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with 

company. 
McMurray, Thomas, Pri. 21. Aug.6, '62; mustered out with compny 
Mann, Samuel, Pri., 27, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 
Mauk, John F., Pri., 18. Aug. 7, '62, discharged Feb. 4. '63. at 

Bowling Green, Ky.. on Surgeon's certificate of disabilty. 
Menuez, Vincent, Pri., 19, Aug. 2. '63; mustered out with company 
Menuez, Vincent A., Pri., Aug 11, '62; enlisted in I12th O. V. I., 

subsequently 63d O. V. I., from which mustered out as Com. 

Sergeant. 
Miller, James D., Pri., 18, Feb. 28, '64; transferred to Co. G, 189th 

O. V. I., July 12, '65. 
Miller, Perry, Pri.. 18, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 
Miller, William H. Pri. 20, Aug. 1, '62; mustered out with company 
O'Brien, Thomas. Pri., 18, Aug. 9, '62; discharged Dec. 12, '62, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Peffer, Phillip, Pri., 42, Aug. 7. '02; discharged May 2, '64, at Rus- 

sellville, Ky. 
Peniz, David A. Pri. 22, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with company. 
Phillips, Chailes, Pri., 43, Aug. 8, '62; mustered cut with company 
Porter, Harvey. Pri., 43, Aug. 5, '62; mustered out with company 
Reese, Jacob, Pri., 19, July 30, '62; discharged Feb. 4, '63, at 

Clarksville, 'I'enn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Reitz, Anthony, Pri.. 19, Aug. 8, '62, mustered out with company. 
Ridenour, Albertus, Pri. 18, Aug. 6,;'62; mustered out with company 
Sands, Hiram S., Pri., 18, Aug. 5, *62; discharged Feb. 2<j, '63, at 

Russellville, Ky.. on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Segner, Robert, Pri., 24, Feb. 28, '65, 1 year; also borneon rolls as 

Robert Leguer; transferred to Co. G, 189th O. V. I., July 12, '65. 
Sharr, Jacob, Pri., 24, July 28, '62; mastered out with company. 
Siegenthaler, Adam, Pri., 18, .Aug. 8, '62; died March 11. ■r.3, at 

VVooster, O. 
Sloan, William. Pri., :J7, July 28, 62.- discharged Feb. 3, '62, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Smith, Cyrus, Pri., 33, Aug. 5 '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 

at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 

of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 

April 27, '65. 



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Smith, George L., Pri., 20, Aug, 9, '62; mustered out with company 
Tracey, Wilson S-, Pri., 19, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 

action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 

May 30, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of vVar Department. 
Thompson, John W., Pri., 18, Feb. 24, '64, discharged May 3, '65, 

at Columbus, O., for wounds received Sept. 24, '64, in action at 

Athens, Ala. 
Vasbinder, Jacob S., Pri., 18, July 24, '64; never mustered. 
Waldorf, William C, Pri., 18, Aug.7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 

action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 

June 6, '65, at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 
Wells; Giles, Pri., 30, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 
Wells, Miles, Pri., 30, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 

at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 

of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 

April 27, '65. 
Wilhelm, George W., Pri.. 20, Aug. 8, '62; appointed Sergeant from 

Corporal Sept. 27, '62; reduced Aug. 26, '63; mustered out with 

company. 

Wilkins, Samuel M., Pri., 26, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out June 5, '65, 
at Columbus, O., by order of War Department. 

Woodruff, William H., Pri., 22, Aug. 5, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 12, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order ot War Department. « 

Wright, William, Pri., 25, Aug. 8, '62; 

Wynn. Jefferson, Pri. 19, Aug. 9, 62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens Ala., exchanged April 22, '65. perished by explosion 
of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Teun., 
April 27, '65. 



COMPANY I. 

Mustered in Sept. (5, 1862, at Coving-ton, Ky., by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nasiiville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captain and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

James H. Robison, Captain, 34. July 23, '62; appointed July 25, '62; 
resigned April 17, '63, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Benton Beerbower, Captain, 21, July 23, '62; promoted to 1st Lieu- 
tenant from 2d Lieutenant F'eb. 25, 63; to Captain April 17, '63, 
mustered out with company 

Jesse Y. Ross, 1st Lieutenant, July 23, '62; resigned Feb, 25, '63, 
on surgeon's certificate of disability, 

David Hinkle, 1st Lieutenant, 23, Aug. 7, '62; promoted from Ser- 
geant July 1, '63; mustered out with company. 



DeWitt C. McConnell, 2d Lieutenant, 31, Aug. 12, 'G2; promoted 
from Q. M. Serg-eant Feb. 25, '63, vo 1st Lieutenant, and Regt. 
Quartermaster April 17, '63. 

Thomas D. Miller, 2d Lieutenant, 23, Aug-. 8, '62/ appointed 1st 
Serg-eant from Serg-eant Sept. 11, '62; promoted 2d Lieutenant 
May 19, '63; mustered out with company. 

Henry W. Peiers, 1st Sergeant, 29, Aug, 11, '62; appointed Corpo- 
ral July 1, '63; Isc Sergeant Nov. 1, '63; mustered out withcompany 

Augustus Markle, Sergeant, 34, July 30, '62; discharged Nov. 28 » 
'62, at Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

William H. Robison, Sergeant, 22, Aug. 7, '62; discharged April 28, 
'62, at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Samuel L. Fegtly, Sergeant, 21, Aug-. 9, '62; appointed from Cor- 
ral Oct. 1, '62; mustered out with company. 

William H. H. Wasson, Sergeant, 22, Aug. 8, '62; appointed from 
Corporal Sept. 11, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, 
Ala., exchangep April 22, '65; mustered out June 19, '65, at 
Cam [J Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Mdses Moore, Sergeant, 19, Aug. 11, '62; appointed Corporal Sept. 
11, '62; Sergeant April 28, '63; mustered out with company. 

John A. Moore, Sergeant, 22, Aug. 11, '62; appointed Corporal July 
1, '63; Sergeant May 1, '65; mustered out with company 

Godfrey H. Om weg. Sergeant 31, Aug. 11, '62; appointed from Cor- 
poral June 29, '63; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, 
Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; died April 29, '65, at Memphis, 
Tenn., o: scalds from explosion of steamer Sultana April 27, '65. 

John H. Reid, Corporal, 20, Aug, 6, '62; mustered out with company 

Hiram H. Foltz, Corporal, 25, Aug, i), '62; mustered out May 13, 
'65, at Nashville. Tenn, by order of War Department. 

John Wiley, Corporal, 21, Aug. 11, '62; appointed July 1, '63, mus- 
tered out with company. 

x\ndrew M. Johnston, Corporal, 22, Aug. 5, '62; appointed Oct. 28, 
'64, mustered out with company. 

Jamas M. Bair, Corporal, 19, Jan. 28. '64; appointed May 1, '65, 
mustered out July 12, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., as supernumerary 

Thomas L. McCoy, Corporal. 18, March, 8, '64; appointed May 13, 
'65, mustered 'uit July 12, '65, at Huntsville. Ala., as supernu- 
merary. 

James McDavitt, Corporal. 33, Feb. 16, '64. appointed May 14, '65, 

transferred to Co. H, 189th O. V, I., July 12. '65. 
Hugh J. Martin, Corporal, 18, Feb. 24, 'CA, appointed May 18, '(o, 

mustered out July 12, '65, at Huuntsville, Ala., as sumernumer- 

ary. 
Howard L. Bair, Corporal, 18, Jan. 28, '64, appointed May 30, '65, 

mustered out July 12, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., as supernumerary 



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Luther H. Wiler, Corporal, 19, Aug. 11, '62, appointed July 1, '63, 
killed Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala. 

Simon W. Pence, Corporal, 20, Aug, 7, '62, appointed Nov. 1, '63, 
died Oct. 28, '64, in general hospital at Hnntsville, Ala. 

John Horn, Corporal, 20 Aug. 4, '62; appointed July 2, '63; mus- 
tered out May 18, '65, at Nashville, Tenn., by order of vVar De- 
partment. 

Chambers Reamer, Corporal, 19, Aug. 11, '62; appointed ; mus- 
tered out May 30, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War De- 
partment. 

James D. McAffee, Corporal, 24, Aug. 8, '62; mustered in as Wag- 
oner; appointed Sept — ; '62; transferred to Veteran Reserve 
Corps, Feb. 16, '64. 

Abner, E. Folcz, Corporal, 22, Aug 6, '62; appointed ; mustered 

out May 14, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department 

Edmond French, Musician, 22, Aug, 6, '62; mustered out with 
company 

William E. Rice, Musician, 20, Aug. 4, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Allaman, Micheal, Pri., 23, Aug, 10, '62; reduced from Corporal 
July 1, '63; mustered out with company. 

Arnold, George W., Pri., 19, Aug. 7, '62; died March 22, '63, in 
hospital at Clarksville, Tcnn. 

Arnold, Jacob, Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Awkerman, Joseph, Pri., 22, Aug. 9, '62; mustered (jut with com- 
pany. 

Bair, James M., Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; discharged Jan. 7, '63, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's cer titicate of disability. 

Baker, Yost S., Pri., 26, July 24, '62; mustered out May 23, '65, at 
Camp Dennison, C, by order of War Department. 

Bardon William, Pri., 20, Aug. 4, '62; died Aug. 17, '63, in hospital 
at Clarksville. Tenn. 

Baughman, Harvey R., Pri., 19, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Beck, Jacob, Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 
Brinker, Henry, Pri. 25, Aug. 9, 62, mustered out with company. 
Brown, Henry G., Pri. 21, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company 
Cleck, Jacob M.. Pri., 24, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company 
Cosier, Cranraer, Pri., 23, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with crmipany. 
Cox, Samuel D., Pri., 25, Aug. 5, '62; discharged Feb. 5. '63, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability, 
Crick, William, Pri., 20. Aug. 11 ''(.2; discharged Feb. 7, '63, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability 

Cubbison, James C, Pri., 25, Aug. 11, '62; died Dec. 19, 'b2, in hos- 
pital at Bowling Green, Ky. 



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Darr, David, Pri., 18, Jan. 28, '64; transferred to Co. H, 189th O, 

V. I., July 12. '65. 
Dice, Stepheu, Pri., 44, Aug. 11, '62; discharged Nov. 25, '62, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate ot disability. 
Douglas, David W. Pri. 22, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 
Dravenstott, Jacob, Pri., 26, Aug. 11, '62; captured Sept, 24, '64, 

in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 

June 12, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 
Ewing, Jonathan, Pri., 18, July 24, '62; mustered out v^ith company 
Fletcher, William N., Pri., 19, July 29, '62; mustered out w^ith com- 
pany. 
Flory, Benjamin, Pri., 42, Aug. 7, '62; died Dec. 6, '63, at General 

Hospital No. 11, Nashville, Tenn. 
Foitz, Heber M., Pri., 20, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 
Foltz, John K., Pri., 29, Aug. 5, '62; discharged Sept, 13. '63, at 

Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Foltz, Joseph M., Pri., 31, {Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 
Forbes, George W., Pri. March 9, '65. transferred to Co. H, 189th 

O. V. I., July 12, '65. 
French, James W., Pri , 24, Aug, 8, '62; discharged Nov. 25, '62, at 

Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Galloway, George W., Pri. 18, July 26, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 
Gasche, Charles C, Pri. 19, Aug. 4, '62; discharged Jan. 14, '63, at 

Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Gault, Joseph, Pri. 23, Aug. 11, *62; mustered out with company. 
Gill, John, Pri., 18, Aug, 11, '62; mustered out with company. 
Gill, Joseph, Pri., 21, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 
Glasgow, Alexander W., Pri., 23, Aug. 7, '62; discharged May 9, 

'65, at Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificateof disability 
Hammon, C.;nrad, Pri, 33, Feb. 5. '64; mustered out May 24, '65, 

at Nashville, Tenn., by order of \Var Department. 
Hammond, John, Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; discharged Feb. 3, '63, at 

Bowling Green, Ky-, on Surgeon's certificate of disability 
Hammond, Francis M., Pri., 19, Au;.,^ 7, '62; mustered out May 

27, '65, at Huntsville, Ala., by order of War Department. 
Hardy, Thomas L., Pri., 18, Feb. 28, '65, 1 year; mustered out 

at Camp Dennison, O., by order ot" WarDepartment. 
Hart, John W., Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 
Hcrsb, David VV., Pri., 23, Aug. 9, '<;2; never reported to company. 
Hoegner, Kdwyrd, Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with com- 

pa 11 y . 
Hoegner, John W., Pri., 29. Aug. 7, ''^.2; enlisted in Co. E, 120th O. 

V. 1.. Sept. 2v, 'b2. 



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Homan, Henry, Pri., 18, Aug-. 5, '62; mustered out with company. 

Horn, Phillip L., Pri., 18, Aug. 7, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 
20, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Jameson, Stephen R., Pri,, 22, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Judd, Henry, Pri., 22, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens. Aia., died March 21, '65, in Rebel Prison at Macon, Ga. 

Keilier, Eli J., Pri. 25, Aug. 9, 62, died Nov. 14, '62, in hospital at 
Bowling Green, Ky. 

Kestler. Joseph E., Pri. 19, July 31, '62; died Jan. 9 '63, in hospital 
at Bowling Green, Ky. 

Kissel, Solomon, Pri., 37. Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Kramer, Levi R., Pri., 19, Aug. 5, '02; mustered out with company. 

Landis, David Y., Pri., 22, Aug. 5, '62; discharged Nov. 20, '62, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surii eon's certiticate of disabilty. 

Laubach, Noah, Pri. 19, Aug. 5, '02; discharged Nov. 25, '02, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certiticate of disability. 

McClargin, Hiram, Pri. 34, Aug.5,'62; died March 10, '63. in hos- 
pital at Clarksville, Tenn. 

McHose, Milton P., Pri., 21, Aug. 2, '62; mustered out June 15, 
'65, at Columbus; O., by order of War Department. 

McKelvey, Joseph, Pri , 25, July 30, '62; reduced from Corporal at 
his own request July 1, '63; died May 0, '65. at Memphis, Tenn.. 
of scald from explosion of steamer Sultana, April 27, '65. 

Maginnes, Henry, Pri., 38, Aug. 11, '62, mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Markle, Constant, Pri., 24. Aug. 4. '03; mustered out with compny. 

Marshall, Robert, Pri., 24, Aug 11. '02; discharged June 29, '(53. at 
Clai ksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Martin, John H., Pri. 19, Auj. 11, '62; mustered out vvith company. 

Melony, Samuel. Pri. 25, Aug. 11, '62; discharged Feb. 4, '02, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certiticate of disability. 

Miller, Harrison D , Pri., 18, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Moore, George W. Pri., 27, S^-pt. 24, '64; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Moore, Samuel, Pri. 21, Aug. 9, 'Q2; mustered out with coin pany. 
Morris, Holly S., Pri. 24, Aug. 11, '0,>; discharged Feb, 12, '63. at 

Louisuille, Ky., on Surgeon's certiticate of disability. 
Movvery John, Pri.. 21, Aug. 7, 'h'i; mustered out June 29, '05, at 

Coluin t)us, O., by order of War Department. 
Mvers, Lewis H., Pri., 28, .\ug. 4, 't)2; reduced from Corporal 

Sept. b, '82; mustered out witticompanv. 



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Omweg, Christian, Pri.38, Oct. 18, '63; transferred to Co. Co. H, 
189th O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Oswald, George G., Pri.. 27, Aug. 11, '62, mustered out with com- 
pany, 

Peters, David S., Pri. 39,Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Phillips, Jefferson J., Pri., April 3, '65; transferred to Co. H, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12. '65. 

Randolph, Lee J., Pri., 27, Aug. 11, '62; reduced from 1st Sergeant 
; discharged Not. 25, '62, on Surgeon's certificate of disabil- 
ity. 

Rhoads, Edward J., Pri., 18, April 3, *65/ transferred to Co. H, 
189th O. V. I,, July 12, '62. 

Rhoades, Emanuel, Pri., April 3, '65; transferred t« Co. H, 189th 
O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Ricksecker, Alva C, Pri. ,17, April 11, '65; 1 year; transferred to 
Co. H, 189tn O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Kutter, Levi, Pri., 18, Aug. 11, '62; discharged Feb. 4, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surseon's certificate of disability. 

Seacrest, Jacob, Pri., 23, Aug. 8, *62; mustered out with company. 

Sheckly, Jacob, Pri., 21, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Silvers, John H. Pri. 25, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Smith, Henry, Pri. 46, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Schmutz, George S., Pri., 16, Aug. 2, '62; captured Sest. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
May 30, *65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Smutz, John C, Pri., 22, Aug. 9, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 
10, '65. at Camp Chnse, O., by order of War Department. 

Snowberger, Abraham, Pri., 19, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with 
company. 

Strew, Pvrry, Pri., 27, Aug. 7, '62; mustered out with company. 

Ta^gart, Emmet F., Pri., 18, Feb. 17, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, *65; transferred 
to Co. H, 189th O. V. I., Jane 29, '05. 

Vanmeter, Cur\is, Pri., 18, Aug. 6, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Vanmeter, John W., Pri., 18, Feb. 2, '65, 1 year; transferred to 
Co, H, 189th O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Wagner, David F., Pri., 24, Aug. 4, '62; died Jan. 3, '65, at Hunts' 
zille, Ala., 

Warner, Squire P., Pri., 19, July 26, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Weltmore, Felix D., Pri., Aug. 2, *62; discharged Feb. 6, '63, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 



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Willouer, Henry, W., Pri.. 21, Aug. 11, '62, mustered out with 

company. 

Yeag-ley, Zedekiah, Pri., 18, Aug. 9, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Robert Clark, Cook, 28, May 20, '63; colored under-cook, mustered 

out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 
Henry Wade, Cook, 21, June 7, '63; colored under-cook, mustered 

out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 



COMPANY K. 

Mustered in Sept. C>, 1862, at Coviiij^ton, Ky.. by P. H. Breslin, Captain 18th 

Infantry, U. S. A. Mustered out June 30, 1865. at Nasiiville, 

Tenn., by John T. Morris, Captiin and A. C. M. 1st 

Division 4th Army Corps. 

John M. Sloan, Captain, 28, Aug. 2, '62; appointed Aug. 5, '62; mus- 
tered (jut with company. 

William A. Beer, 1st Lieutenant, 29, Julv 29, '62; promoted to Cap- 
tain Co. B. Nov. 26, '64. 

James P. Dougal, 1st Lieutenant, 25, Aug. 5, '62; promoted from 
2d Lieutenant Co. D, April 8, '65; mustered out with company. 

Jerome Potter, 2d Lieutenant, 24, Aug. 8, '62; appointed Aug. 20, 
'62, 

Daniel W. Kagay. 1st Sergeant. 24, Aug 12, '62; died May 17, '64 

at TuUahoma, Teiin. 
George C. McConnell, 1st Sergeant, 21, Aug. 15, '62; appointed 

from Sergeant — — ; promsted to 2d Lieutenant to date Dec. 

1, '63, mustered out May 15, '65; at Loui><ville, Ky., by order 

ot War Dej)artment. 
Joel Berrv, 1st Sergeant, 22. Au;^. 22, '6i; appointed from Sergeant 

May 15, '6S; mustered out with c(^mpany. 
Andrew J. -Pr'-udtit, Sergeant, 24. Auy. 15. '62; died Nov 16, '62. 

at Bowling Grt-en. Ky. 
William N. Fast, Sergeant, .^0, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, *64. 

in action at Athens, Ala , e.xchanged .\pril 22, '65; mustered one 

May 20, '65. at Columbus. O., 6y order ot War'Dei»artment. 
Edwin P. Stentz, Sergeant, 23, Aug. 7, '62; appointed from C(^rpo- 

ralJuiy 1, 'G4; mustered out vMth cociipaiv. 
Oliver Lee, Sergeant. 25, Aug. 13, '62; a[»poinfed Corporal Dec. 1, 

'62; Sergeant May 15, '65; mu.steied out with company. 
Daniel Braden. Sergeant, 20, Auj-. 15, '62; appointed Corporal Aug. 

29 '63; Sergeant June 1, \')r>; niu^iered out with eompain. 
J )ha Wolf, Sergeant. 23. Awj;. 13, '62; a{)p >iiited Corporal Aug. 29. 

'0'>\ S.'rj-eaat June I, '65; iiiustered out \\\iU company. 



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Michael H. Sprinkle, Sergeant, 21. Aug. 10, '62; appointed from 

Corporal ; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala.; 

exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out May 20, '65, at Columbus, 

O., by order of War Department. 
David R, Crane, Corporal, 18, Aug. 14, '62; died Feb. 6, '64, at 

Nashville, Tenn. 
Wilson A. Fast, Corporal, 19, Aug. 17, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 

in action at Athens, A.la., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 

May 20, '65, at Columbus, O., by order ot War Department. 
Watson H. Anderson, Corporal, 18, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 

24, '64, in action at Athens, Ala.; died April 7, '65, at Jefferson 

Barracks, Mo. 
James M. Campbell, Corporal, 29, Aug. 12, '62; transferred to 

Stokes' Tennessee Battery Dec. 1, '62. 
William Motter, Corporal, 23, Aug. 12, '62; discharged Aug. 26, '63, 

at Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate o: disability. 
Benjamin T. Ross, Corporal, 24, Aug. 14, '62; appointed Feb. IS 

'64; mustered cut with company. , 

Henry Brady, Corporal, 36, Aug. 13, '62; appointed July 1, '64; 

mustered out with company. 
William F. Silance, Corporal, 18, Aug. 12, '62; appointed Nov. 1, 

'64; mustered out with company. 
John Tracy, Corporal, 19, Aug. 22, '62; appointed June 1, '65; 

mustered out with company. 
Joseph Stofer, Corporal, 18, Aug. 15, '62; appointed June, 1, '65; 

mustered out with company. 
James Walker, Corporal, 35. Aug. 8, '62; appointed June 1, '65; 

mustered out with company. 
James R. Gibson, Corporal, 34, Aug. 15, '62, appointed July 14, '63, 

died Oct. 9, '64, at Decatur, Ala. 
Jasper N. Sbaver, Corporal, 20, Aug. 14, "62; discharged Aug, 27, 

'63, at Clarivsviile, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Al-ber»on, Robert W., Pri., 31, Aug. 11 '62; mustered in as Corpo- 
ral; discharged as private May 23, '63, at Clarksville, i'enn., on 

Surgeon's certificate of disability. 
Baker, John Pri., 32, Aug. 15, "62; mustered out with company. 
Baker, William A., Pri., 18, Aug. 13, '62; discharged lor minority, 
Bechtel, Joseph, B., Pri. 19, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 

action at Athens, Ala., died April 11, '65, at McPherson General 

Hospital, Vicksburg, Miss. 
Beck, William, Pri. 17, Aug. 15, '62; died June 29, 't34, at Tullaho- 

ma, Tenn. 
Berry, Robert J.. Pri., 18, Dec. 21, '63; transferred to Co. K, 189th 

O. V. I., July 12, '65. 
Bowlby, George W., Pri. 20, Aug^. 14, '62; died Jan. 5, '63, at Bovvl- 

ing Green, Ky. 



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Boyer, Isaac, Pri., 21, Aug^. 14, '62; died Feb. 24, '63, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. 

Bryan, John F., Pri., 18, Aug. 21, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 
12, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Budd Caleb, Pri., 19, Aug. 22, '62; died Jan. 21, '64, at Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Bulhand, Elijah, Pri., 32, Aug. 13, '62; discharged Jan, 19, '63. at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Bunt, Henry W., Pri., 32, Aug. 22, '62; died Dec. 7, '62, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Burnside, Robert, Pri., 18, Dec. 21, '63; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, 65; mustered out 
May 20, '65, at Columbus; O., by order of War Department. 

Carney George B., Pri., 3S, Aug. 11, '62; discharged Dec. 9, '62, 
at Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Cassel, John, Pri., 22, Aug. 14, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in action 
at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explosion 
of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn., 
April 27, '65. 

Cook, Andrew N., Pri. 27, Aug. 14, 62, 

Cyle, Elias, Pri., 22, Aug. 22, '62; mustered out with company. 

Doll, John, Pri., 30, Aug. 4, 62; mustered out with company. 

Donley, Thomas, Pri., 36, Aug. 14, '62; discharged May 30, '65, at 
Huntsville, Ala., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Ely, Jacob, Pri. 32, Aug. 11, '62; died June 1, '65. at Huntsville, Ala. 

Dunlap, Alexander, Pri. 24, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company 

Fast, Isaac, Pri., 36, Aug. 15, '62; discharged Jan. 21, '63, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Gordon, Andrew, Pri., 18, Aug. 19, '62, died April 9, '64, at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

Grubaugh, Isaac, Pri., 19, Aug. 19, '62; died June 28, '63, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. 

Hartman, John F., Pri., 21, Aug 14, *62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn., A^->ril 27, '65. 

Herrington, James E., Pri., 18, Aug. 28, '64; killed Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala. 

Holtzman, Jacob B., Pri. 27, Aug. 12, '62; died, Jan. 19, '63, at Rus- 
sellville, Ky. 

Hoover, Josiah, Pri., 28, Aug. 12, '62; discharged Feb. 13, '64, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Imhofif, John F., Pri., 21, Aug. 15, '62; died Dec. 29, '62, at 
Bowling Green, Ky. 



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Johnson, Franklin, PH. 19, Feb. 23, '64. 

Kanauss, Charles F., Pri., 18, Aug. 12,' 62; mustered out with 
company, 

Kauffman, John F., Pri., 18, Aug-. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, 
in action at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out 
June 22, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Keller, Lorenzo, Pri., 21, Aug. 22, '62; mustered out with company 

Kerstetter, Samuel, Pri., 41, Aug. 22, '62; discharged March 14, 
"63, at Russellville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate ot disability. 

Kerstetter, William J., Pri., 18, Dec. 21, '63; transferred to Co, F. 
189th O. V. I., July 12, '65. 

Kiplinger, David, Pri , 19, -Aug, 22, '62; mustered out with company 

Kissel. Jacob, Pri. 18, Aug. 19, '62; captured Sept, 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out with 
company. 

Lane, Luther N., Pri. 19, Aug. 8, '62; discharged Jan. 21, '63, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Lee, James, Pri., 40, Aug, 22, '62; mustered out with company. 

Leidig, Martin V. B., Pri., 21, April 3. '65, 1 year; mustered out 
July 27, '65, at Camp Dennison, O., by order of War Department. 

Leidig, Reuben, Pri., 19, Aug. 14, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Lutz, Abraham, Pri., 19, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with company. 

McKee, James H. Pri. 19, Aug. 19, '62; mustered out with company. 

Marsh, Aretas, Pri., 20, Aug. 5, '62; died Feb. 20, '63, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. 

Mitchell, Aaron, Pri., 18, Aug. 12, 62; mustered out with company. 

Moore, Jacob, Pri., 42, Aug. 13, '62; mustered out with company. 

Motter, Charles, Pri., 25, Aug. 11, '62; mustered out with company. 

Motter,- John, Pn., 18, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with company. 

Murray, Hugh, Pri., 36, Aug. 14, '62 mustered out with company. 

Myers, John D., Pri., 19, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with C(»mpany 

Myers, Henry, Pri. 24, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company. 

Myers, Peter J., Pri. 26, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company- 

Norris, Elmer Y., Pri., 27, Aug 10, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala., dic^d March 25, '65, in Rebel Pi isun ai An- 
dersonviUe. Ga. 

Ogden, Charles P. Pri. 32, Aug. 8, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac - 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22. '65; perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Missi.ssippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 22, "65. 

Phillips, Solomon. Pri., 21, Aug. 13, '62; discharged Jan. 25, ' 63, 
at Bowling Grten, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 



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Power, Chandler, Pri., 16, Aug. 10, '62; mustered in as Mmsician; 
musteren out with company. 

Rice, Calvin C, Pri., 28, Aug. 12, '62; Tiustered out with company. 

Riddick, Wesley, Pri. 20, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with compny. 

Robinson, Henry, Pri. 20, Aug-. 15, '62; mustered out with company 

Romine, John, Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; died May 9, '65, at 
Jefferson Barracks, Mo. 

Rote, Jacob, Pri., 18, Dec 21, 63; transferred to Co. K, 189th O. 
V, I., July 13, '65. 

Ruckenfelder, EVederick, 26, Aug. 22, '62; died April 1, '64, at 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Rutan, Peter, Pri., 38, Aug. 21, '62; mustered out with company. 

Sattler, George P., Pri., 18, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Sattler, John, Pri., 20, Aug. 15, '62; died May 28, '63, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. 

Shultz, Annaas, Pri., 21, Aug. 12, '62; died Dec. 30, '62, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Shultz. Josiah, Pri., 22, Aug. 8, '62; discharged Jan. 7, '63, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky,, on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Shutlz, Josiah A. Pri., 23, Aug. 12, '62; mustered out with company 

Signs, Samuel, Pri., 25, Aug. 13, '62; discharged Jan. 7, '64, at 
Clarksville, Tenn., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Singer, Jeremiah, Pri. 25, Aug. 12, 62, captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Smith, Henry, Pri., 18, Feb. 15, '64; captured Sept. 24, '64, in ac- 
tion at Athens, Ala., exchanged April 22, '65; mustered out June 
19, '65, at Camp Chase, O., by order of War Department. 

Sprinkle, Amos, Pri., 25, Aug. 12, '62; discharged Jan. 21, '63, at 
Bowling, Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Starrett, Henry, Pri., 23, Aug. 15, 62; mustered out with company 

Stayman, Abraham, Pri., 55, Aug. 22, '62; discharged Feb. 9, '63, 
at Russelville, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Steinmetz, George, Pri., 18, Aug. 5, '62; captured Sept. 24, '64, in 
action at Athens, Ala.; exchanged April 22, '65; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, '65. 

Stoner, Jacob, Pri., 20, Aug. 15, '62; mustered in as Wagoner; dis- 
charged July 21, '64, at Cleveland, O., on Surgeon's certificate of 
disability. 

Topping, George H., Pri. 18, Sept 3, '(.2; discharged Jan. 7, '63, at 
Bowling Green, Ky., on Surgeon's certificate, of disability. 



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ROLL OF HONOR 



102nd Regiment Ohio Volunteers Infantry. 



Al^ire, Henry F.' Private Co. E, died Jan. 4, 1863; at Clarksville, 
Tenn.; buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Amsbaug-h, Robert, Private Co. H; died July 25, 1863, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn.; interred in section V, grave 200; buried at Nashville, 
Tenn. 

Anders, Job J., Sergeant Co, D, died Aug-. 27, 1864; at Bellefont, Ala. 
Interred in section P, grave 622. buried at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Anderson, Watson H., Corporal Co. K; died April 7, 1865. In- 
terred in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery; buried at St, Louis, Mo. 

A.rnold, George W., Private Co. I; died March 22, 1863, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. Hurried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Arnold, John, Private Co. G; died Nov. 29, 1862, at Bowling Green, 
Ky. Interred in section N, grave 6'ZS. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Bahl, Henry, Private Co. H. died April 27, 1865; perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultrnna on Mississippi River, near Memphis 
Tenn. 

Bahn, Adam, Private Co. B, died April 27, 1865; perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Baker, John, Privute Co. D, died April 27, 1865; perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Baney, John, Private, Co. H, died April 27,1805; perished by explo- 
sion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Bardon, William, Private Co. I, died Aug. 17, 1865, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn, 

Beal,Amos, Private Co. E, died April 27,1865; perished by explosion 
of Steamer Sultana on Mississipi River; near Memphis, Tenn. 

Beal, Jacob, Corporal Co. E, killed Sept. 24. 1864, in action at 
Athens, Ala. Interred in Stone Rever Cemetery, buried at Mur- 
freesboro, Tenn. 

Beck, William, Private Co. K, died June 29, 1864, at Tullahoma 



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Tenn. Interred in Stone River Cemetry , in Murfreesboro, Tenn. 
Bechtel, Joseph B., Private Co. K, died April 11, 18H5. Buried at 

Vick-sburg-, Miss. 
Berry, SanriUcl, Private Co. D, killed Sept. 34, 1864, in action at 

Athens, Ala. Interred in Stone River Cemetery at Murfreesboro, 

Tenn 

Bierly, Jacob, Corporal Co. E, died April 27, '65; perished by explo" 

sion of steamer Sultana on Mississipi River near Memphis, Tenn. 
Boiten, William E., Private Co. E, died March 22, 1863, at Russl- 

ville, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Bowlby, George W., Private Co. K, died Jan, 5, 1863, at Bowling 

Green, Ky. Interred in sec. N, grave 456, at Nashvitle, Tenn. 
Boyd, Stephen A., Private Co. B, died Feb. 22, 1864. Buried at 

Nashville, Tenn. 
Boyer, Isaac, Private Co. K, died Feb. 24, 1863, at Clarksville,Tenn. 

Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Brenizer Amos, Private Co. H, died April 27, '65. Perished by ex- 

posion of steamer Sultana on Mississipi River, near Memphis, 

Tenn. 

Brenizer, David T., Private Co. H, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosihn of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Budd, Caleb, Private Co. K, died Jan. 21, 1864. Interred in sec- 
tion P, grave 522. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Bunt, Henry W., Private Co. K, died Dec. 7, 1862, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Burt, John A„ Private Co. D, died April 27, 1865. perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Carr, David, Sergeant Co. B, died Dec. 13, 1863. Interred in sec- 
tion 34, grave 277, Jefiferson Barracks Cemetery. St Louis, Mo. 

Cassel, John, Private Co. K, died April 27, '65. perished by ex" 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis' 
Tenn. 

Chamblin, Francis, Private Co, E, died April 26, 1823, at Clarks- 
yille, Tenn. Buried 'at Nashville, Tenn. 

Cook, Jacob, Corporal Co. H, died Nov. 21, 1862, at Bowling Green- 
Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Corts, Joseph B. F„ Sergeant Co. D, died A.iril 27, '65. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Couter, Ellas, Private Co. E, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississipi River near Memphis, 
Tenn. 



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Vanosdall, John, Pri., 28, Aug. 15, '62; mustered out with company 

Vanosdall, Simon B., Pri., 22, Aug. 22, 62; died Feb. 7, '64, at 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Walker. John, Pri., 36, Aug. 8, '62; mustered out with company. 

Wlicox, Chsrles, A., Pri., 19, Aug. 19, '62; mustered out with com- 
pany. 

Wolf, Joseph, Pri., 30, Aug. 14, '62; mustered out with company. 

Yoha, Benjamin, Pri., 23, Aug. 15, '62; discharged Jan. 21, '63, at 
Cincinnati, O., on Surgeon's certificate of disability. 

Youngblood, Samuel, Pri. 20, Aug. 6, "62; died Aug. 2, '63, at 
Clarcsville, Tenn. 

Andrew Jackson, Cook, 18, May 6, '63; Colored under-cook, mus- 
tered out May 30, '65, as sudernumerary. 

Isham Taylor, Cook, 17, May 6, '63; colored under-cook; mustered 
out June 30, '65, as supernumerary. 



UNASSIGNKD RECRUITS. 

Bethley, George, Pri., 25, Aug. 22, '64, 1 year; no record subse- 
quent to Aug. 25, '64. 

Frase, Samuel, Pri. 23, Aug. 31, '64; 1 year; discharged Sept. 24 
'64, at Todd Barracks, Columbus, O., on Surgeon's certificate of 
disability. 

Hor, Michael, Pri., 36, Feb. 28, '65; \ year; no record subsequent 
to enlistment. 

Johnson, William, Pri. 25, Sept. 23, '64, 1 year. 

McCave, William, Pri., 29, Feb. 11, *64. 3 years; no record subse- 
quent to Feb. 23, '64. 

McCormaack, Jsmes, Pri., 19, March 18, '64, 3 years; no record 
subsequent to March 22, '64. 

Potter, Jennisgs, Pri., 18, Sept, 13, '64, 1 year; no record subse- 
quent to Sept. 27, '64. 

Whittle, William, Pri,, 23, Sept. 33, '64, 1 year; no record subse- 
quent to enlistment, 



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Tenn. Interred in Sione Rirer Cemetery. Burried at Mur- 
freesburo, Tenn. 

Crane, David R., Corporal Co. K, died Feb. 6, 1864. Buried at 
Nashville, Tenn. 

Crovsr, William, Corporal Co, H, died April 27, '65. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Cunningham. William, Private Co. H, died March 33, 1865. Killed 
in actional Decatur, Ala. Buried at Corinth, Miss. 

Cubbison, James C, Private, Co I, died Dec. 10, 1862 at Bowling 
Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Disterheff, John C, Private Co. F, died April 17, 1863, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Divelbiss, John, Corporal Co. E, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
exposion of steamer Sultana on Mississipi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Earich, William, Private Co. D, died April 37, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Ecker, David N., Private Co, B, died Oct. 3, 1863 st Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Elders, Isaiah, Private Co. E, died May 26, 1863. Drowned in 
Cumberland River, at Clarksville, Tenn. Interred in sectian V, 
grave 176, Buried at Nashville, Tenn, 

Elliott, Jonas D., Lieut. Col. died Oct. 13, 1865, at Athens, Ala., of 
wounds received Sept. 24, 1864, in action, Interred in section 
K, grave 202, at Murfreesboro, Tenn 

Ely, Jscob, Private Co. K, died June 1, 1865, at Huntsville, Ala. 
Interred in section L, grave 513. in Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Fabra, David, Private Co. A, died April 27, 1865. Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Faber, Willism H., Private Co. B, died Dec. 2, 1862, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Furguson. Levi, Private Co. D, died May 23, 1864, at Tullahoma, 
Tenn. Interred in Stone River Cemetery at Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

Fisher, Daniel, Jr., Private Co. B, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near. Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Flint. Lysander, Private Co. C, died April 27, '65. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Flory, Benjamin, Private Co. I, died Dec. 6, 1864. Buried at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

Geary, John, Corporal Co. C, died April 11, 1864. Buried at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 



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Geiger, Joseph, Private Co. C, died May 10, 1864. Interred in sec- 
tion Q, grave 110, at Nashville, Tenn. 

Gibson, James B., Corporal Co. K, died Oct. 9, 1864, at Decatur, Ala. 
Buried at Corintti, Miss. 

Goodridge, Stephen M., Private Co. F, killed July 15, 1864, killed by 
Rebel guard while prisoner of war. 

Gordon, Andrew, Private Co. K, died April 9, 1864. Interred in 
section J, grave 72, Nashville, Tenn. 

Gresh. John, Private Co. B, died Feb, 27, 1865, Buried at Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

Grice. David, Private Co. D, died April 27, 1965, Perished by ex- 
plosion ot steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Grubaugh, Isaac, Private Co, K, died June 28, 1863, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Guard, James W., Private Co. A, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis. Tenn. 

Guib, Jacob, Private Co. A, died April 27, 1865. Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River -near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Hal), George L., Private Co. A, died A.iril 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Harnly, Manuel, private Co. D, died April 27, 1865. Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Harrngton, Gideon, Corporal Co, H, died April 37, 1865. Perished 
by exposion of steamer Sultana on Mississipi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Harrington, James E., Private Co. K, killed Sept. 24, 1864, inaction 
at Athens, Ala. Interred in Stone River Cemetery Murfrees- 
buro, Tenn. 

Harris, James Mc, Private, Co G, died Jan. 26, 18G5, at Decatur, 
Ala. Buried at Corinth, Miss. 

Harsh. Sylvsnter D., Private Co. E, died April 7, 1863. at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. Interred in section V, grave 184, st Nashville, Tenn. 

Hartman, John F., private Co. K, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
byexplosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Herring. William Cook, died April 12, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. 

Hoagland, Pliny M., Corporal Co. G, died Dec. 28, 1862. Interred 
in Cave Hill Cemelery, Louisville, Ky. 

Holton, Philip L. Sergeant Co. E. died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosi(>nof steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

HoUzmna, Jacob B., Private Co, K, died Jan. 19, 1863, at Russel- 
vlile, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 



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Hornburg-er, William C, 'Sergeant Co. C, died April 27, 1865. Per- 
ished by explosion of steamer Sultana onMississippi River, near 
Memphis Tenn. 

Hough, Edmond, Private Co. B, died Oct. 9, 1863, at Elk River, 
Tenn. Interred in Stone River Cemetery, at Murf reesboro, Tenn 

Hough, Lewis, Private Co. B, died July 2, 18t53 at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Huntsberger, Jonas, Corporal Co. H, died April 27, 1865. per- 
ished by explosion of steamer Sultanaon Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Hurting, John, Private Co. H, died Dec, 14, 1862. Interred in 
Cave Hill Cemetery, at Louisville, Ky. 

Imhoff, John F., Private Co. K, died Dec. 29, 1862, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Irons, Jacob, Corporal Co. E, died April 27, 1865- Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Isch, Jacob, Private Co. A, drowned Dec, 31. 1864, in Tennessee 
River, at Decatur, Ala. 

Johns, Dixon W., Corporal Co. G. died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Jones, John, Private Co. A, died April 11. 1863, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Judd, Henry, Private Co. I, died March 21, 1865, in Rebel Pris- 
on, Buried at Macon, Ga. 

Kagay. Daniel W., 1st Sergeant Co. K, died May 17, 1864, at Tul- 
lahoma, Tenn, Interred in Stone River Cemetery, at Murfrees- 
boro, Tenn. 

Kauffman, Daniel, Private Co. D, died Nov. 7, 1864, in Rebel Pris- 
on at Cah rba, Ala. 

Keeler, William, Private Co.F, died April 27, 1865. Perished by ex" 
plosion of Steamer Sultana on Mississipi River, near Memphis? 
Tenn. 

Keener, Christian, Private Co. B, died July 30, 1864, at Dodsonville, 
Ala. Buried at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Keiffer, Eli J., Private Co. I, died Nov. 14, 1862, at Bowling Green, 
Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Keller, Isaac, Private Co. E, died Nov. 26, 1862. Interred in Cave 
Hill Cemetery, at Louisville, Ky, 

Kennedy, David P., Sergeant Co. E, died March 15, 1865 at De- 
mopolis, Ala., while prisoner of vi^ar. Interred in section L, 
grave 566 at Marietta, Ga. 

Kestler, Joseph E, Private Co. I, died Jan, 9, 1863, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. Interred in section N, grave 291 at Nashville, Tenn. 



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Kilg-ore, Zimri, Private Co. A, died Feb. 27, 1863, at Clarksville, 
Ttnn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Kimmell, William C, Private Co, C. died Nov. 29, 1862, at Bowling- 
Green, Ky, Interred in section N, grave 630, at Nashville, Tenn. 

Koon, Jacob, Private, Co. E, died Dec. 17, 1862. Interred in sec- 
tion B, grave 1001, at Nashville, Tenn 

Kramer, David, Private Co. F, killed July 15, 1864, by Rebel guard 
while a prisoner of war. 

Krebbs, Henry, Corporal Co, B, died April 27, 1965. Perished by 
explosion ol steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Landis, Robert C, Private Co. H, died April 4. 1865, on hospital 
steamer R, C Wood. Interred in sectian 2, grave 193, Mississ- 
ippi River Cemetery, at Memphis, Tenn. 

Lantz, Jacob, Private Co. D, died Sept. 7, 1864. at Athens, Ala. In- 
terred in section M, grave 457, Stone River Cemetery, at Mur- 
freesboro, Tenn. 

Lautenslager, Leonard, Private Co. G, died Nov. 24, 1862, at Bowl- 
ing Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Leidig, Reuben, Paivate Co. K, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn, 

Leighland, Daniel, Private Co. G, died April 3, 1865, on hospital 
boat. Interred in section 2, grave 187, at Memphis. Tenn. 

Lemon, John, Private Co. E, died Aug. 11, 1864, at Bellefonte, Ala. 
Interred in section P, grave 623, at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Ling, Charles M., Private Co. G, died Dec. 11, 1862, at Bowling 
Green. Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn, 

Lower, Joseph, Private Co. H, died Jan. 8, 1863, at Bowling Green, 
Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Ludlow, Araos B., Private Co. G, died Dec. 23, 1862, at Bowling 
Green, Kv. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

McClargin, Hiram, Private Co. I, died March 10, 1863, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

McCrea, John, Corporal Co. B, died April 27, '65. Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

McCullough, John B., Private Co. A, died Feb. 23, 1823, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. Buried af Nashville, Tenn, 

McGinnis, Luther, Private Co. A, died April 27, 18(.5. Perished by 
explosioof steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

McGlaui>hlln, John B., Private Co. A. died Dec. 28, 1862, at Rus- 
sellvilie, Ky. Interred in section V, grave 65 at Nashville, Tenn. 



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Mcllvain, William, Private Co. C, died Nov. 29, 1862, at Bowling- 
Green, Ky. Interred in section N, grave 615, Nashville, Tenn. 
McKee, Henry B., Private Co. G, died Dec, 3, 1862, at Bowling 

Green, Ky. Interred in section N, grave 548, at Nashville, Tenn. 
McKelvey, Joseph, Private Co. I, died April 27, 1865, of injuries 

recieved by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River. 

Interred in section 2, grave 211, Mississippi River Cemetery at 

Memphis Tenn. 
MrMonigal, James, Private Co. F, died March 11, 1865. at home 

in Holmes Co , O. 
Mackey, William, Private Co. E, died April 28, 1863, at Clarksville, 

Tenn. Interred in section V, grave 177, at Nashville, Tenn. 
Manor, John W., Private Co. C, died Jan. 16, 1863, at Bowling 

Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Marsh, Aretas, Private Co. K, died Feb, 20, 1863, at Clarksville, 

Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Matthews, Daniel, Private Co. D, died Dec. 16, 1862. Interred in 

Cave Hill Cemetery, at Louisville, Ky. 
Maxwell, William. Private Co. B, died Feb. 16, 1862, at Clarksville, 

Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Meloit, Sylvester C, Private Co. G, died Jan. 9, 1863, at Russell- 

ville, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Menser, Samuel, Private Co. E, died April 29, 1864. Interred 

in section Q, grave 121, at Nashville, Tenn. 
Mercer, James M., Private Co. B, died April 27, 1805. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 

Memphis, Tenn. 
Merchand, Leander, Private Co A, died April 27, 1865. Perished 

by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 
Mitchell, Joseph R., Private Co. A, died April 27, 1865. Perished 

by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 
Molebasb, Joseph, Private Co. G, died Nov. 19, 1862, at Bowling 

Green, Ky. Interred in section N, grave 394 at Nashville, Tenn. 

Moon, Joseph A., Private Co. C, died Dec. 8, 1862, at Bowling 

Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Moores, Edward, Private, Co. C, died Oct. 10, 1862. Interred in 

Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincincinnati. O. 

Morehead, Josiah, Private Co. A, died March 29, 1865, in Rebel 
Prison at Meridian, Miss. 

Mowery, Jessiah, Private Co. F, died Dec. 21, 1862, at Bowling 
Green, Ky. Interred in section N, grave 353, at Nashville, Tenn, 

Mullett, John, Private Co. G, died April 27, 1865. Perished by explo- 
sioaof steamer Sultanaon Mississippi River, near Memphis, Tenn 



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Musser, Benjamin, Corporal Co. H, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 
Myers, John, Private Co. E, died March 10, 1864. Interred in sec- 
linn P,5grave 434. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Norris, Elmore Y., Private, Co. K, died March 25, 1865, in Rebel 
Prison. Interred in grave 22,815, at Andersonville, Ga. 

Ogden, Charles P., Private Co. K, died April 37, 1865. Perished 
by exposion of steamer Sultana on Missiasipi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Omweg, Godfred H.. Sergeant Co, I, died April 29, 1865. Died of 
injuries received by explosion of steamer Sultanaon Mississippi 
River, near Memphis. Tenn. Interred in Mississippi Cemetery, 
at Memphis, Tenn. 

Ordway Nathaniel, Corporal Co. E, died Dec. 14, 1862, at Bowling 
Green. Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. Reinterred at Bellville, 
Richland County. O. 

Osborn, Walter, Private Co, C, died May 4, 1863, at Clarksville, 
Tenn' Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Oyster, Simon, Private Co. E, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Pence, Simon, Corporal Co. I, died Oct. 28, 1864, at Huntaville, Ala. 
Buried at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Perkey, Benjamin F., Private Co. G, died Feb. 2, 1863 Interred 
in Cave Hill Cemetry, at Louisville, Ky. 

Price, Simon P., Private Co; G, died April 27, 1865. Pearished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn, 

Proudfit, Andrew B., Sergeant Co. K, died Nov. 16, 1862, at Bevel- 
ing Green, Ky. Buried at Nashvile, Tenn. 

Rallston, John, Private Co. D, died July 1, 1863. Drowaed at 
Clarksville, Tenn, 

Rankins, Oliver, Private Co. C, died Oct. 31, 1864, in Rebel Prison 
Buried in Cahaba, Ala. 

Reed, Samuel S,, Private Co. A, died Dec. 10, 1862. Interred in 
section B, row 4, grave 29, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. 

Rennington, Lucius, Private Co. G, died June 7, 1865. Interred in 
section45, grave 285, Jefferson Barracks Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. 

Reynolds, Wilson, Private Co. G, died Feb. 6, 1863, at Clarksville. 
Tenn. Interred in section V, grave 149. Buried at Nashviile,Tean 

Richards, Reuben H, Sergeant Co. B, died April 27. 1865. Per- 
ished by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, 
ppar Memphis, Tenn. 

Ritchey. Stephen, Private Co. B, died Oct. 24, 1864, in Rebel Pris- 
on. Buried at Cahaba, Ala. 



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Riddle, James, 1st Lieutenant Co E, died Sept. 25, 1863. Acci- 
dentally killed by falling from a railroad train. Interred in sec- 
tion D, grave 411, Stone River Cemetery, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. 

Riggle, Henry, Private Co. C, died Oct, 23, 18'H at Decatur, Ala. 
Interred in section B, grave 2, at Corinth, Miss, 

Robison, Jacob H., Private Co. F, died April 8, 1865. Interred in 
section 45, grave 114, Jefferson Barracks Cemetery, at St Louis, 
Mo. 

Rohrer, Elias C, Paivate Co. D, died Nov, 12, 1864, in Rebel Pris- 
on, at Cahaba, Ala. 

Romine, John, Private Co. K, died Mav 9, 1865, Interred in sec- 
tion 45, grave 216, Jefferson Barracks Cemetery at St. Louis, Mo. 

Rose, Jacob S., Private Co. G, died .•Xpril 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Ruckenfelder, Frederick, Private Co. K, died April 1, 18^54. In- 
terred in section P, grave 373. Buried at Nashville, Tenn 

Sabin, DeWitt C, Private Co. F, died Jan. 10, 1863, at Bowling 
Green. Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Sandel, Christian, Private Co. A, died Dec, 13. 1864, in Rebel Pris- 
on. Interred in grave 13,196, at Andersonville, Ga. 

Sattler, John, Private Co. K, died May 28, 1863, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn, 

Sayers, George, As. Surgeon, died Dec. 26, 1862. at Bowling Green, 
Ky. Buried at Nashville Tenn. 

Schrader, John, Private Co. G, died-April 27, 1865. Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Seaton, John F., Private Co D, died Jan.l, 1863, at Bowling Green 

Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Senche, Frederick, Private Co. F, died Oct. 20, 1864, at Decatur, 

A.la. Buried at Corinth, Miss. 
Shadel, John, Private Co. C, died May 20, 1863, at Bowling Green, 

Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Shaffer, James, Private Co. E, died Nov. 15, 1862. Buried at New 

Albany, Ind. 
Shepperly, George, Private Co. F. died April 27, 1865. Perished 

by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 

Memphis, Tenn. 
Shiffier, George P., Private Co. D, died Oct, 30, 1864, at Huntsville, 

Tenn. Buried at Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Shoup, Charles W., Private Co. F, died April 27, 1865. Perishd 

by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 
Shreffier, Joseph, Private Co. D. died March 14, 1864. Interred 

in section P, grave 522, at Naahville, Tenn. 



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Shultz, Anaas, Private Co. K, died Dec, 30, 1862, at Bowling Green, 
Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Sidle, Henry, Private Co. F, died April 27, 1865. Perished by ex- 
plosion ot steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Siegenthaler, Adam, Private Co. H, died March 11. 1863, at heme 
in Wayne Co. Buried at Wooster, O. 

Simmonds, Thomas J., Private Co. E, died Oct. 2, 1862. Interred 
in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O. 

Simons, James, Private Co. C, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion oi steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Singer, Jeremiah, Private Co. K, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamerSultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Skelly, Hiram, Private Co. A, died Feb. 12, 1863, at Bowlin? Green, 
Ky. Interred in section N, grave 692. Buried at Nash Tenn. 

Sleggle, Ezra K., Private Co. G, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
explosion of Steamer Sultana on Mississipi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Smalley, Daniel, Private Co. B, killed Sept. 24, 1864 in action at 
Athens, Ala. Interred in Stone River Cemetery, at Murfrees- 
boro, Tenn, 

Smith, Cyrus, Private Co. H, died April 27, 1865, Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Memphis, 
Tenn. 

Smith, Henry H., Private Co. G, died Nov. 7, 1862, at Bowling Green, 

Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Smith, Jeremiah, Private Co. B, died Dec. 19, 1862, at Bowling 

Green, Ky. Buried at Nashville, Tenn, 

Smith, Oliver P., Private Co. F, died March 6, 1865, at Huntsville, 
Ala. Buried at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Spring, George. Private Co. A, died April 7, 1864. Interred in 
section P, grave 510 at Nashvile, Tenn. 

Spring, Jacob, Private Co. A, died Feb. 23, 1863, at Clarksville, 

Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 
Stahl, Joel, Private Co, F, died March 24, 1864, at Nashville, Tenn. 

Steinmetz, George, Private Co. K, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis. Tenn. 

Stephens, Samuel, Private Co, G, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Stevens, Henry, Private Co. E, die dApril 8, 1863, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Interred in section V, grave 186, at Nashville, Tenn. 



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Stine, David G , Private Co. F, died April 27, 1865. Perished by ex- 
plosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Strawsbaugh, Samuel, Private Co. D, died April 27, 18(55, Per- 
ished by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn 

Strock, Levi. Corporal Co. A, died June 19, 1863, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashville, Tenn < 

Stuff, Frederick, Paivate Co. E, died April 27, 18(.5. Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Swank, Daniel L., Private Co. E, died Jan, 7, 1865, on board the 
floating hospital Ohio. Interred in section B, grave 1:^75, in New 
Albany, Ind. 

Taylor, Harvey R., Private Co. G, killed Sept, 24, 1864, at Athens, 
Ala. Interred in Stone River Cemetery, at Mnrfreesboro, Tenn. 

Torbet, Robert, Private Co. F, died April 27, 1865. Perishd by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Traxler, Heman S., Private Co. E, killed Sept. 24, 18*54, in action 
at Athens, Ala. Interred in Stone River Cemeterey, at Mnr- 
freesboro, Tenn. 

Trussel, Isaac, Private Co. G, died March 3, 1865, at Selma, Ala. 
Buried at Marietta, Ga. 

Uhlich, George W., Private Co. D, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Underwood, James, Private Co. D, died April, 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Vanosdall, Simon B., Private Co. K, died Feb. 7, 1864. Interred 
in section Q, grave 108. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Wade, Benjamin F,, Sergeant Co. A, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion ol steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Wagner, David F., Private Co. I, died Jan. 3, 1865, at Huntsville, 
Ala. Buried at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Wagner, Lewis, Private Co. C, died Nov. 28, 1864, at Tullahoma, 
Tenn. Interred in Stone River Cemetery, at Murfreesboro, 
Tenn. 

Warner, Michael, Private Co. G, died March 17, 1865, in Rebel 
Prison. Interred in grave 12,786, at Andersonville, Ga. 

Weiler, Luther H., Corporal Co. I, killed Sept. 24, 1864, in action 
at Athens, Ala. Interred in Stone River Cemetery, at Murfrees- 
boro, Tenn. 



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Wells, Joseph, Private Co. B, died April 27, 1865. Perished by 
expiosioa of ^^leamer Sultaua on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tean. 

Wells, Miles, Private C&. H, died April '^7, 1865. Perished by ex- 
plosion ot steamer Sultana onMississipi River, near Meaaphis, 
Teun. 

Wheeler, Daniel, Private Co. E. died April 27, 1865, Perished by 
explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near Mem- 
phis, Tenn. 

Whittaker, Abraham, Private Co. D, died Dec. 25, 1863. Accident- 
ally killed. Buried at Nashville, Tenn. 

Williams, Abraham, Private Co. D, died Oct. 16, 1864, at Decatur, 
Ala. Baried at Corinth, Miss. 

Williams, James T., Private Co. D, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Williams, John H., Private Co. C, died April 21, 1865. Interred in 
section 45, grave 158, Jefferson Barracks Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo. 

Willis, William W., Private Co. E, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis. Tenn. 

Winkler, James J., Private Co. F, died July 12, 1864, at Huntsville, 
Ala. Interred in section L, grave 544, at Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Wirick, Peter, Sergeant Co. E, died May 18. 1864, at Tullahoma, 
Tenn. Interred is section L, grave 45, at Murfreesboro, Tenn, 

Wynn, Jefferson, Private Co. H, died April 27, 1865. Perished 
by explosion of steamer Sultana on Mississippi River, near 
Memphis, Tenn. 

Younfblood, Private Co. K, died Aug. 2, 1863, at Clarksville, 
Tenn. Buried at Nashrille Tenn, 

Zody, Aaron E., Captain Co. D, died Feb. 31, 1865, of w«unds re- 
ceived Sept, 24, 1864, in action at Athens, Ala. Buried at Louis- 
ville, Ky. 



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RECAPITULATION. 



Field and Staff 

Total Number of Ofiflcers 38 

Number of Officers Resig^ned -- 3 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certifiicate of disability 1 

Number died of wounds or diseases 2 

Number mustered out with Regiment - 13 

Co. A. 

Total number of OC&cers and Privates -- 120 

Number discharged on Surw-eon's certificate of disability 9 

Number died of wounds or diseases 21 

Number mustered out by order of War Department 27 

Number mustered out with company - — 47 

Number transferred or otherwise. 16 

Co. B. 

Total number of Officers and Privates.. .-... 105 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate ot disability 12 

Number mustered ont by order of War Department 14 

Number died of wounds and diseases 19 

Number mustered out with company... 44 

Number transferred or otherwise 16 

Co. C. 

Total number of Officers and Privates lOU 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability 7 

Number died of wounds and diseases 15 

Number mustered out by order of War Department 7 

Number mustered out with company 55 

Number transferred or otherwise. 14 

Co. D. 

Total number of Officers and Privates.. 108 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disalility 21 

Number died of wounds or diseases 21 

Number mustered out by order of War Department 17 

Number mustered out with company ... 38 

Number transferred or otherwise 11 



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Co. E. 

Total number of Officers and Privates. 114 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability 8 

Number died of wounds or diseases.- 28 

Number mustered out by order of War Department 12 

Number mustered out with company 46 

Number transferred or otherwise _ 20 

Co. F. 

Total number of Officers and Privates 115 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability 9 

Number died of wounds or diseases 16 

Number mustered out by order of War Department 18 

Number mustered out with company 54 

Number transferred or otherwise -■- 18 

Co. G. 

Total number oi Officers and Privates 136 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate ot disability 15 

Number died of wounds or diseases.. 25 

Numbre mustered out by order of W^ar Department.— 21 

Number mustered out with company..... 39 

Number transferred or otherwise _ 36 

Co. H. 

Total number of Officers and Privates 116 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability 14 

Number died of wounds or diseases _ -... 18 

Number mustered out by order of War Department 15 

Number mustered out with company _ 45 

Number transferred or otherwise... _. 22 

Co. I. 

Total number of Officers and Privates 124 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability.. 20 

Number died of wounds or diseases 13 

Number mustered out by order of War Department 14 

Number mustered out with company 55 

Number transferred or otherwise... _ — - 22 

Co. K. 

Total number of Officers and Privates _ 113 

Number discharged on Surgeon's certificate of disability 16 

Number died of wounds or diseases.. 30 

Number mustered out by order of War Drpartment 9 

Number mustered out with company _ 44 

Number transferred or otherwise 13 



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Officers Discharged on Dted of wounds Mustered out Mustered out Transferred or 
and Surgeon's or by with 



Privates certificate diseases Department Company otherwise 

Staff .._-_ 28 4 2 

Co. A 120 9 21 27 

Co, B 105 12 19 14 

Co. C 108 7 15 7 

Co. D-- 108 21 21 17 

Co. E- 114 8 28 12 

Co. F ._.... 115 9 16 18 

Co. G 136 15 25 21 

Co. H 116 14 18 I'i 

Co. 1 124 20 U 14 

Co. K - 113 17 30 9 



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44 


16 


55 


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38 


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1186 13G 208 155 480 197 

REMARKS 

It will be noticed that Co. G had 136 men enlisted, but this is 
accounted for by having so many men "rejected by examining Sur- 
geon." Co. I had the most "discharged on Surgean's certifi- 
cate," and tied with Co. E in the most "mustered out with com- 
pany." Co. Klost the most by " died of wounds or diseases.'' Co. 
G had the most "transferred or otherwise, 




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Three Full Companies Gone. 

Three full companies left Wooster yesterday, (the 14th of 
August. 1862), for Camp Mansfield, being- Wayne county's full 
quota under the call of 300,000 volunteers. All the compies were 
full, with a surplus of from 10 to 20 men for each company. The 
Following are the company officers: 

Captain, J. W. Stout; 1st Lieutenant, S. B. Kenton; 2d Lieuten- 
ant, H. H. Rowe. 

Captain, J. H. Robison; 1st Lieutenant, J. Y. Ross; 2d Lieu- 
tenant, Benton Beerbower. 

Captain, Jonas D. Elliott; 1st Lieutenant, Edward W. Bradley 
2d Lie itenant, James McNulty, 

The companies left on the 2 p. m, train, and were accompan- 
ied to the depot by an immense concourse of people, and left amid 
the enthusiastic plaudits of the multitude, with the prayers and 
blessings of fathers, mothers, wives, brothers and sisters. 

It is our pleasure as well as duty to say, that we have never 
seen a number of men together who conducted themselves so or- 
derly and with so much sobriety, quietness and decorum, during- 
the day which they left, as well as all the time during which the 
companies were raised. Officers and privates alike deserve the 
commendation of all good citizens, and we know that all will make 
brave and true soldiers. — Wooster Republican. 



The 102d Regiment went into camp at Mansfield August 20 
1862, and remained their until Sept. 4. The camp was situated 
about two miles east of Mansfield and on a decline to the west. 
The quai ters were laid out in rows with wide company streets be- 
tween, and officers' quarters at the head. At the foot of company 
streets was a space for dress parade and drill. The barracks 
were built of rough boards — a tier of bunks on each side with a 
space in the center for a table which ran the whole length of the 



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building', upon which we ate our meals, which consisted of lig^ht 
bread, bean soup and coffee with sugar for those who liked it, but 
without any miik. This was hard on those who were used to it, 
and we had no butter for our bread. This was even worse, as wit- 
ness the experience of Jacob Storme published elsewhere. 

The time was spent in camp in company drill and in various 
sports. A guardline was formed around the entire camp, and a 
detail was made each day to do g-uard duty. A guard-house was 
built at the entrance, and all those who did not conduct themselvea 
properly were placed in the guard-bouse. We think it was seldom 
occupied. The boys would sometimes sneak through the f^uard- 
line and do a little ' foraging." But this was not often indulged in 
as the 102d was always noted forits gentlemanly qualities. 

OFFICIAL RECORD 



Of the One Hundred and Second Regiment Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry 

Organized at Mansfield, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1862; moved to Coving- 
ton, Ky., Sept. 4 and 5, 1862; mustered in Sept, 6, 1862. 

Duty defense of Cincinnati, Ohio, until Sept. 22. 1862. 

Defense of Louisville, K., Sept. 24, to Oct. 5, 1862. 

Guard of trains from Louisville to Shelbyville Oct. 5 and 6, 
1862. 

Battle of Perrysville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862. (In reserve.) 

March to Crab Orchard and thence to Bojvling Green, Ky.. 
Oct. 9, to 30, 1863. 

Duty at and in vicinity of Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 25, 1862, to 
Sept. 21, 1863. 

Moved against Joe ?7heeler, Tennessee raid, Sept. 28 to Oct. 
30, 1863. 

Duty at Nashvill, Tenn., Oct. 30, 1863, to April 26, 1864. 

Moved to Tullahoma, Tenn., April 26, 1864. 

Duty on the Nashville and Chattanooga railread, Gormanda to 
Deckard, April 28, to June 26, 1864. 

Crossed the Cumberland Mountains June 6 to 10, 1864. 

Outpost duty on Tennessee River, Stevenson to Decatur, Ala. 
to foot of Seven Mile Island, June 10 to Sept. 1 1864. 



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Patrolling Tennessee and Alabama railroad at Decatur, A.la., 
Sept. 15, 1864. 

Action at Athens, Ala,, Sept. 24, 1864, in which many were 
killed, wodnded and captured. Of those captured at Athens, after 
being seven months in prison, they were exchanged and placed 
on the ill-fated steamer Sultana, which exploded at Memphis, 
Tenn., April 27, 1865, and 88 lost their lives. 

Siege of Decatur, Ala., Oct. 26 to 29, 1864, 

Operation on Tennessee River in rear of Hood's army Nov. 
3 to 24, 1864, 

Evacuation of Deratur and march toSteveason, Ala., Nov. 25, 
to Dec. 2, 1864, 

Duty at Decatur, Ala., Dec, 29, 1864, to June 2, 1865, 

Action at Decatur. Ala., March 3, 1865. 

Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., June 30, 1865, 

Arrived home July 7, 1865. 



SERVED 

In Thirty-Eighth Brigade, Twelfth Division, Army of Ohio, 
from Oct. 1862, to July, 1863.. 

Bruce's Brigade, Paiue's Division, Department of the Cum- 
berland, to June, 1863; 

First Brigade Third Division Reserve Corps, Army of the 
Cumberland, to October, 1863, 

First Brigade, Third Division, Twelfth Army Corps, Army 
of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. 

First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps, Milita- 
ry Division of the Mississippi, to August, 1864. 

First Brigade, Fourth Division, Twentieth Army Corps, to 
June 1865. 



The following is taken from a Wooster paper about the time 
the 102d was camped at Mansfield and getting ready to move to 
the front: 

Startling News from Kentucky. 

The rebels are making startling advances in Kentucky. They 



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have pntererl the State at manv p tints in great numbers. Three 
thousand of their cavairy on Monday was within twenty-five miles 
of Lexing-ton. A larre force has got in the rear of Gen. Morg-an's 
Cumberland Gap Army, in which is the l'>th regiment, with the 
intention of capturing- our entire force, and unless reinforcements 
are immediately sent to that g-allant officer, they will certainly ac- 
complish their object. 

The following^ is taken from the Wayne County Democrat, of 
Au|f, 28, 1802: 

The I02d Regiment. 

The 102d resjiment com manded by Col. Given has been ordered 
to Kentucky, and will leave Camp Mansfield for that State this 
week. 

The 102d reg-iment received their arms on Wednesday and 
left for Cincinnati this morninw- (Sept. 4,) at 5 o'clock. 

Sept. 4, 1862, the 102d O. V. I. left camp for Cincinnati and 
Coving ton, but we will-leave Jonas Bughman, of Co. C. tell the story 
of the campaig-n on the heig-hts of Coving-ton in defense of Cincinnati 
against the threatened attack of Kirby Smith, who boasted that he 
was gfoing- to eat braektast in Cincinnati, but we would not let him. 

Bughman's Diary covers the entire ground, giving day and 
date for nearly every day, except now and then a day missed, from 
leaving Camp Mansfield, to the return of the regiment to Colum- 
bus, O., on July 7, 186S. This is a valuable contribution, and with- 
out it this History would be quite incomplete. 

At Covington we were mustered into the U. S. service for 3 
years or during the war. The writer was but a 16 year old bay, 
and stood next to a boy one year older. When the mustering offi- 
cer came along he asked George how old he was. "Soon be 18," 
was the'answer, but he did not say a word to me. We had some 
"Shortys" in our company, and the ofi&cers put small stones un- 
der their heals to make them "big" enough to pass muster The 
regiment was 1,130, oflBcers and privates, and we were green, un- 
driUed soldiers and did not know how to march. The head of col- 
umn would march all right, but those farther back could not keep 
step and would jam up, and then wait, then jam up again. This 
made it very hard marching for those in in the rear, but we soon 
learned to get the stride and the march became more regular. 



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A DIARY 

BY JONAS BUGHMAN, CO. C. 

jMna"^ Buyhman enlisted August 2, 1862, and went into ca'np 
August 20. nc^rth of Mansfield and left there Sept. 4 and got to 
"Tincinnati the 5ih and crossed the river to Covington, Ky., and left 
the 7th for Camp Miichel], 2>^ miles, and left there the 8th for 
Fort Mitchell, one mile, and left there the same day, and marched 
some six miles into line of battle near Camp King, and lay on our 
arms all night; had hay for a bed. On the morning of the 9th the 
bovs caught a fine lot of chickens. We kept a look-out for the 
Johnnies all day and lay on our arms all night. 

Sept. 10. All right, wrote home. 

Sept 11. We are building headquarters with rails and brush. 
At noon when we just had our coffee pounded out, the orders 
came, To arms, boys. They ran us through brush and fences at 
a great rate for some 400 yards. Then we had dinner. At night 
we were just asleep, when ordars came to take arms and we 
marched out for picket guard. It rained most of the night. 

Sept, 12. Came back to camp, 

Sept. 15. As we were eating dinner, bushwhackers came to see 
us and we were ordered to march and we marched twice and we 
are not ten rods from where we lay last night. Supper over and 
lav down tosleeo, when we were roused by pickets firing. We 
formed in line of battle and lay on our arms till morning, 

Sept. 19. All right in the woods two miles from camp. Some 
of the boys have come in with pots and coffee and melons. At 
seven o'clock we had our pickets out, when the relief came out and 
we went back to camp. 

Sept. 20. Now we are to move, but we stayed here all day. At 
nigtit we were roused and marched to Covington and got on the 
boat there. 

Sept. 21. We left for the Cincinnati side of the river and changed 
boats to go down the Ohio River to Louisville, and we ran aground 
and lay there all night, 

Sept. 23. We landed at Madison, Ind., and had word that they 
expected a fight at Louisville, The wheel of the boat had to b« 
mended. Left Madison by same boat at three o'clock and reached 
Louisville at nine at night. 

Sept. 24, We marched out of town and formed a line. 



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Sept. 25. We have to drill eig'bt hoars a day while we stay here 
Got our tents at three o'clock and put them up. We had word 
t'jat the 15th, 64th and 65th regiments were ten miles from here. 

Sept. 27, We don't expect to fight here. There are 160,000 
troops around the town. 

Sept. 28. A good sermon preached by a man from the 101st 
Ohio. 

Sept. 29. Major General Nelson was shot by a man by the 
name of Davis in Louisville. 

Wednesday, Oct. 1. The road towards Bardstown has been 
lined all day with troops, Theysay there are a hundred thousand 
to leave here to-day. Now comes orders to prepare three days' ra- 
tions. We marched out into a commons and remained there all 
night. 

Oct. 5 We left Louisville at 12 o'clock and marched five miles, 
and the unnslnng knapsacks and put them in the wagons and 
ma ched six miles, then halted for the night. 

Oct. 6. Rose at 1 o'clock and marched five miles, then stopped 
for breakfast. Then marched five miles to Lincolnsville, then 
rested 30 minutes, then marched nine miles to Shelbyville and 
baited for the night. 

Oct. 7. We are under Gen. Dumont, 12th Division. 38th Brigade, 
Col. Chetten. After dinner we marched one mile in the woodsand 
formed in line. 

Oct, 8. At eleven o'clock we started on the march. We passed 
through Shelbyville and marched till night. 

Oct. 9. We marched to Frankfort. The cavalry had a small 
fight last night killing three secesh. It is 28 miles from Shelby- 
ville to Frankfort. 

Oct. 11. Marched eight miles to Rough and Ready, then dinner, 
then marched four miles to Ganonsburg. 

Oct 12. The cavalry brought in 50 Johnnies at one time. 

Oct 13. Marched welve miles to Salvisa and camped. 

Oct. 14. Marched twelve miles to Harrodsburg, then dinner, 
and marched eight miles further and halted. 

Oct. 15. Marched two miles to Danville, then six miles further 
and halted for dinner, then four miles further through Stamford 
and halted for the night. There has been a small fight ten miles 
from here, but we cannot depend on anything we hear. 

Oct. 16. Slung knapsacks ta 2 a. m. and marched nine miles 
to Crabapple Town, then stopped for breakfast, then marched 2 



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miles and camped one-half mile from the 15th Ohio, 

Oct. 20. Marched back through Crabapple Town and Stamford 
and four miles fnrther and camped for the nij^ht. 

Oct. 21. We marched six miles to Danville, then stopped lor 
dinner in sight of the town. We are now under McCook's Divis- 
ion 38th Brigrade. After dinner we marched five miles and campci 
jn the woods for the night, 

Oct. 22. We marched five miles to Perryville, were the battle 
was fought this day two weeks ago. Almost every house in town 
is a hosiital. Camped here for the night. 

Oct. 23. We marched four miles oa the pike then turned to the 
left and marched three miles, We are going to Lebanon, 18 miles 
from Perryviile. We campad close to Bradsondville. 

Oct. 24. We marched nine miles and camped in the woods for 
dinner. 

Oct. 25. We marched tour miles to New Market, then marched 
seven miles and got dinner and camped in the woods. 5 

Oct. 26. Three inches of snow. We marched five miles, stopped 
one hour, ate dinner, then marched four milesto Linnville, then two 
miles to Cross Roads, then 3 miles to Green River, then four mile» 
further and camped for the night. 

Oct. 27. We marchd eight miles and stopped for dinner, then 
marched nine miles and camped in the woods near Mumfords- 
ville. We have slept on the ground ever since we left Louisville. 

Oct. 38. We marched eight miles then stopped and got dinner, 
then marched four miles and passed Cave City, then nine miles 
further and camped. 

Get. 29. We marched twelve miles. 

Oct. 30. We marched thirteen miles to Bowling Green, Ky. 

Oct, 31. Our pickets brought in some rebels»this morning. 

Nov. 12. Here in Bowling Green we can have pies and lifirht 
bread by paying for them. 

Nov. 16. Our tents came yesterday and we put them up last 
night. 

Nov. 17. There is some talk of Morgan being it the neighbor- 
hood. 

November 21. The regiment moved to the other side of town. 
We are camped along side of the railroad that runs to Nashville. 

December 10. The drafted men from Mansfield came down to- 
day and camped along side of ns. 

December IS. Most of the regiment left yesterday for Russell- 
ville, Ky. Those of us that were ©n picket are here yet. 



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iJecember 16. At three o'clock got on fbe cars for Russellville, 
thirty miles and landed there at sunset. This is a nice little 
tovv'n. They say there are but four Union men in Russellville. 

December 23. Drew onr new Springfield rifled muskets to- day. 

December 24. Left Russellville at ten o'cloch this morning, and 
marched four miles, then halted to rest; then we passed a small 
place. Then three miles more broujjfbt us to a small town called 
Walney. Next marched three miles and turned to the left one 
mile, then turned back into the road again. The officer in charge 
being drunk made a mistake. Then marched three miles to Al- 
ienville, and turned to the left half mile into the woods, where we 
camped. After supper we marched till eight o'clock. 

December 25. Marched three miles and unslung knapsacks, 
and then marched seven miles and stopped for dinner, then 
mached one mile and halted ten minutes then marched five miles 
more and stop ^ed in the woods. We are now in Tennessee. Next 
we turned back, the bridge being burnd down, and so we could not 
get across the river. Next the order was couster.macded and we 
marched down to Red River below the bridge, but could not cross 
then turned and went up to the bridge and crossed on the ruins 
of the bridge, then marched four miles and camped. 

December 26. At Clarksville, Tenn., in the woods. 

December 29. There are 100 negnoes from town digging riflepits 
and our teams are busy hauling flour. We captured 700 barrels 
that was stored away in a mill. The boys that were left at Rus- 
sellville came to camp to-dav. 

December 31. We have fonnd more flour down at the Cumber- 
land River in a warehouse. They say that there or 15,000 barrels, 

January 1, 1863. Our cavalry brought in eleven prisoners to-day. 

January 2. The negroes are still at work on rifle pits. 

January 7. Some of our boys went to the riverto-day to load two 
boats with flour to send to Rosencrans's array. 

January 10. A boat load of wounded soldiers from Nashville 
passed here to-day. 

January 14. It is reported that the rebels burned a boat on 
the Cumberland River for us. 

January 15. The snow is five inches deep and snowing and 
sleeting yet. 

January 16. The snow is ten inches deep. 

January 20. There was a paroled soldier shot in the hip as he 
was walking along the pavement in Clarksville by a rebel, as he 
was going down to the boat landing. 



January 31. Lieutenant Scott and 20 men packed knapsack--, 
and went to headquarters, then drove to Red River and crossed ot- 
the ferryboat. We drove till four o'clock and passed throug-h a lit- 
tle town and camped by a church in the wood. We went into thi' 
Methodist church to sleep. 

February 1. Started after breakfast and passed the place I 
named Centreville, and g-ot to Russellville at 12 o'clock and art- 
loading the wagons with pork, then started for Clarksville, an<i 
camped at night in the school house at Centerville. 

February 2. Started this morning- again, and passed Allenville, 
then bad dinner. Then started again and camped for the nig-ht 
in a brick church in the woods. 

February 3. Reached camp again at noon. 

February 17. The Colonel's horse was taken out of the stable 
during the night, supposed to be stolen. 

February 27. The long roll beat to-nigfat and we fell into line 
in a hurry. The alarm was some guns firing. We stood in line 
one hour, then returned to camp, 

February 28. One hundred men from the I02d were detailed to 
go somewhere well equipped with two days' rations. 

March 1. The 100 boys have got back from loading wood soon- 
er than was expected. 

March 3. The word is that there was a boat ran against one of 
the pillars of the railroad bridge crossing the Cumberland River 
and nicked a hole into her and she sank. I know not what her 
. loading was, The 17th Kentucky left for Nashville. 

March 11. Our cavary came in with eleven prisoners and their 
horses from Woodward's Cavalry. 

March 15. We areguardinga boat just comedown from Nashville 
The hands are busy unloading the goods. The cavalry brought 
in two prisoners just now. We have word that Vicksburg is evac- 
uated and the rebels routed completely. 

March 21. The paymaster came to pay us one and a half 
month's pay, and the 102d voted for no pay unless we got more. 

March 30. Word came that Vandoorn is down the river with 
1,200 men, Next had orders to pack up for a move. We marched 
close to the river where the Red River enters the Cumberland and 
camped. 

April 1. We marched to Fort Bruce, a short move, and now 
have our tents staked once more. The men are busy working ia 
the fort preparing it for an attack. We can see all over Clarks- 
ville from here. It could be shelled from here quite handily. 



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April 2. At 10 j'clock there was cononnadino- down the Cumber- 
land some 12 miles, :ind at 2 o'clo-ck two f^-unboats came ap, one 
bein^ disabled. The word is that the rebels have taken two o^^ 
our boats, the Luminary, the other I could not ^et the name. At 
3 o'clock the picket?* fired and the camp was alarmed, the lon^^roll 
beat and Co. G was the first company on the line. Next the teams 
were got up. and 100 from the 102d and 100 from the 28th Kv. were 
detailed to load provisions at the commissary to draw into the 
fort, then we left ranks. 

April 3. Orders are for every Captain to hold his men in readi- 
ness for an attack. We have two large guns now. 

A-pril 4. The rebel pickets have crossed tbe river opposite 
tov/n. Our pickets exchanged shots with them, killing one rebel 
and wounding one. 

April 6. We drew pay up to the 1st of March. 

April 7. The Decatur came up with a lot of convalescent sol- 
diers going to their regiments. 

April 8. Companies A, B and C were detached to go on a scout 
with two days' ration and wt went to town and stopped at the ba- 
kery to draw bread, when I took sick, and Captain Scott sent me 
to camp. The rest went to the boatlandmg to get aboard to go up 
to the shoa3s. 

April 9. The rebels burned two boats loaded with sutler goods 
and killing the Captain of the boat and shooting the rrm of the sut- 
ler. Our boys recaptured some of the goods and some citizens 
and brought them to camp. 

April 10. Our boys that went up to the shoals came back this 
morning. 

April 14. One of Co. I boys had a bullet hole shot through his 
left ear. Our boys went to the shoals and returned. 

April 15. Twelve men from each company started for the shoals 
The boys came back all right from the shoals. 

April 18 The negroes are still working on the fortifications. 

April 19. A fleet of ten boats came up from Louisville, and a 
fleet of six boats came down from Nashville. 

April 21. Fifty of the 102d were detailed to go somewhere, and 
we went to the river landing and loaded the boat Excelsior with 
coal and started down the river and past the ruins of Palmyra, 
down some four miles, and landed and sent out twenty pickets. 
We stood four hours, then a fleet came up the river and we re- 
turned to our boat and came up with her. Got to camp at six 
o'clock at night. 



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April 22. Forty of the same boys that went down the river 
yesterday were detailed to go ag^ain. We went to the landing-, jj-ot 
on the Excelsior and landed where we did yesterday. Twenty of 
us went on picket. We stood five hours and at signal of the boat 
came in and got to the landing with the fleet. 

April 23. At half past two o'clock fifty of us went to the river 
landing and stayed there until seven, A'hen we got aboard the Ex- 
celsior and started up the river with the fleet. After we passed 
the shoals four miles we met a fleet and came down with them. 
We saw no enemy. 

April 26. We went to the boat landing and got aboard the ex- 
celsior. Went with the fleet for the shoals. Went up some 18 
miles. Some went ashore and went ap on a high hill, where we 
could see all around, but saw no enemy. At a signal from the boat 
we joined her and went up to the end of the shoals, then meeting a 
fleel returned to camp. 

April 28. B'lfty of us went up the river on the Excelsior at 12 
o'clock at night, We landed and left thirty cavalry go ashore to 
take a scout, and we stayed here till morning. 

April 29. Started to Clarksville and got to camp all right. Cap, 
tain Bowman is promoied to Lieutenant Colonel. 

April 30. At one o'clock at night a hotel burned down at Prov- 
i lence. 

May 1, Fifty of us got aboard Lincoln gunboats, went down the 
river, passed Palmyra, sent out twenty men on picket, then started 
back with a passing boat and reached camp at eight at night. 

May 2. Went to Red River landing. Captain Lobach in charge 
of the squad, and loaded one boat with coal, got to the foot of the 
shoals, saw some men. They took to therjheels. Sent fifteen men 
on a scout, they returned, not seeing any person. Then went up 
to the island, then returned to Clarksville. 

May 3. Got aboard the Excelsior and started down the river. 
Landed at the same place as usual. Then the old Arizona, that 
we came on from Covington to LouisTile, came up and three others 
and we returned with them. 

May 4. Started for the shoals before day. Put up for the night 
at same place at the shoals, and sent out fifteen pickets on the reb- 
el side and some on the Union side. 

May 5. The pickets are all in and we started for camp. We 
gathered up five skiffs on the rebel side coming down. 

May 7. Fifty of us with one day's rations and forty rounds of car- 
tridges started for shoals, stayed some time and returned to camp. 



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May 8. F'ifty of us went down tlie river to Ihe old place. The 
word here is that Vicksburg- is In our hands. Hooker, ^o in. 

May 9, We have word that the jjunboats burned ten bouses up 
at the shoals last night. The rebels fired on theni, not knowing 
that there was a gunboat in the fleet. 

May 11. Our boys captured a rebel Lieutenant and two privates 
last night. 

May 20. The 8th Kentucky Cavalry are moving somewhere; 
we can hear them going. We found the cavalry had only gone on 
a scout. We hrve word that Jackson, Miss., is in our hands. 

May 22. Last night the rebels burned a bridge twelve miles 
from here on the railroed leading to Russellville. 

May 25. We now have word that Vichsburg is in our hands. 

May 27, I am on picket. There is good news in camp, for we 
beard them give three cheers, and the guns at the fort are firing. 
The victory at Vicksburg is sure. 

June 2. Forty of; us, of Co. C and ten of Co. G, got aboard the 
Excelsior and started up the river. We landed one mile below the 
island. Captain Scott and twenty of us got ashore and went up 
one-half mile. Got back at six o'clock. 

June 10. Fifteen of the 102d went to the shoals on the Excel- 
sior. Returned all right at night, 

June 11. The .3d Western Cavalry are passing here. 

June 12. We drew clothing to-day. 

June 16. Up at four o'clock in line of battle for one hour. 

June 17. We drew twenty-six dollars apiece to-day, 

June 24. Six men from each company went away on the gun- 
boat with two days' rations this morning. 

June 26. Our 60 boys came back from the shoals to-day. 

June 30. Mustered for pay to-day. 

July 4. Exercises in a grove to celebrate the 4th of July, and 
had fire-works at night. 

July 2. Heard that Whip-poor-will Bridge on the railroad was 
washed away by the flood.' This stops our mail. Drew two 
months' pay to-day. That pays us to the 1st of July. 

July 8. Vicksburg is ours once more, and 30,00 prisoners taken 
on the Potomac. 

July 8, The 5d Kentucky Cavalry came from Hopkinsville. 

July 14, The big guns in the fort were fired for the success of 
our army in late victories. 

July 1*^. We have word that Fort Hudson is ours. 

July 17, Drew a shirt and pair of pants. 



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July 22. The nec^roes are busy worVinf»- at the Boom-proof. It 

as outside the fort, and is to have a passage to one inside the fort. 

We heard that Morgan's forces were all captured and he escaped. 

July 25. Three men from each company went to Fort Donald- 
son with CoL Bruce. 

July 26. The boys came back from Fort Donaldson, 

July 27. We heard that Morgan was captured. 

August 23, One hundred m^n were detailed to go 3n a scout, 

August 24. The 1st Tenn. Battery started on a march some- 
where. There were 100 more men detailed to reinforce the hun- 
dred that went yesterday with Captain Loblack on a scout. At 
ten o'clock the first hundred came back from being down the river, 
and the other hundred have gone up the river to the shoals. 

August 26. The boys all back from the shoals. The 2d Illinois 
Battery arrived here to-day. 

September 5. Thirty of the boys started on a scout. 

September 6. The men that were out scouting returned, bring- 
ing with them one prisoner. 

September 11. At three o'clock in the night Capt. Scott and 30 
men went somewhere on a scout, 

September 15. At three o'clock a scout of sixty men started 
across the river. 

September 16, Six of the 60 men returned bringing five prison- 
ers with them. 

September 17. Drew two months' pay. 

September 18. The scouts returned to-day. 

September 20. The 83d passed us. 

September 21. Packed everything ready for a move. Marched 
out the Nashville pike four miles, into a field by a stream of water 
and halted for the night. 

September 22. At sunrise slung knapsacks and marched one 
mile and watered the teams, then marched nine miles and stopped 
one hour for dinner, then marched six miles and halted for the 
night in an old stock field. Capt. Scott was sick and Lieut. Wolf 
took charge of Co. C. 

September 23. We put our knapsacks on the wagons and 
marched through the woods, then down a large hollow, the road 
running around it cutting the letter "S" nicely, then marched some 
four miles and halted by a stream for dinner. We are getting on 
finely, only sore feet. Marched six miles and put up for the night 
two miles from Nashville, Tenn., near the river side. 

September 24. Slung knapsacks and marched through Nash- 



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ville and camped close to the city. Now we have orders to marcb 
at a momeat's notice to Stevenson, Ala, Marched to the cars, got 
aboard and started at eight o'clock. 

September 25. Put in a hard night crowded together in the 
cattle cars. At sunrise reached TuUahoma, neat reached Cowan 
Station and went into camp. Got word that Lieut. Kiddle was 
killed, supposed to have fallen oft the train. He was run over. 
Next we moved our camp. Some negro soldiers passing once in 
a while- 

Septenaber 26. Some 1,400 prisoners passed through on the cars 
to Nashville, 

September 27. In the night another load of ^irisoners went 
through. There are some S>0 ra ions dealt ont to citizens each day. 
A train with wounded soldiers from the 64th and 15th Ohio went 
by on their wav to Nashville. 

September 30. Tbe cars are crowded with soldiers on their way 
to Chattano(>ga, 

October 1. Any amount of soldiers going to the front. 
October 2. Major General Howard passed going to the front. 
October 5. A train passed toward Nashville loaded with sol- 
diers. Now they have returned and are pitching their tents. 

October 6. Marching orders, packed knapsacks, three days' 
rations and sixty rounds of cartridges, marched to the cars, got 
on, passed Deckard Station, then passed the left wing of our regi- 
ment. Stopped at Tullahoma long enough to get a few apples and 
pies. Started again and landed at the burnt bridge, marched past 
the burnt stockade and halted, then Cos. C and I went on picket. 

Octoder 7. Marched one mile to a small placee called Wartrace. 
Then we marched witdinone mile of Shelbyville, then we took a 
right flanking movement of seven miles and came wiihin sight of 
Shelbyville, making 14 miles, then we turned to the left one-half 
mile. Then we turned square to the left again and march thirteen 
miles, stopping at ten o'clock at night in the woods. This trip 
we made in eleven hours. 

October 8. Marched two miles to Belt Buckle, then breakfast, 
then marched back to Wartrace. Then dinner, then marched 
past the burned bridge and rested, then unslung knapsacks at 
Duck River. Halted there for the night. At midnigh tCol. Given 
got a dispatch to report at TuUaliotna, at 8:30, o'clock, which is 15 
miles by the road, so at 3:30 o'clock we started and marched it in 
time. Then slung knapsacks and got aboard the cars and rode 
back to Cowan Station, and are now in our old camp. We had 



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quite a race after the rebel cavalry. The u'ord is we run them off 
tbeir route so that our cavalry captured 500 of thera, 

October 9. Had scarcely lain down when there was an alarm. 
The 28th Kentucky at the tunnel were driven from their post and 
"we were formed in line Our company was sent out as scouts, and 
the rest went into the fort, and at 12 o'clock Co. I relieved us. 

October 10. Col. Given ordered the 28th boys back to their post 
to hold it at all hazzard. Lieut. Farmer came from Clarksville. 

October 20. Two hundred and fifty convalescents were here to 
join their regiments at the front, 

October 24. The 20th Connecticut left for the front. 

October 26. Last nig-ht a torpedo was laid on the track south 
of the tunnel blowing- the tender off the locomotive. 

October 28. Marching orders to go to Nashville. 

October 29. Marched to Deckard Station and took dinner, then 
marched to Elk River, met the left wing of the regiment, and 
halted for the night. Now the regiment is all together again. 

October 30. Marched 12 miles to Tullahoma, through rain and 
mud, then supper and camped for the night. 

October 31. Waited at the station for the cars. They did not 
come so we stacked arms and pitched our tents on the green. 

November 1. Got ab :)ard the train at three to-day, and reached 
Murfreesboro at dusk and reached Nashville at 2:30 in the morning- 
November 2. Marched one mile north, (southwest) and are 
now in fair view of the city of Nashville and pitched tents. We are 
now about west of town. 

November 7. We got Bell tents. 

November 13. Capt. Scott has gone to the hospital sick. Lieut. 
Donnell, from Co. E, is assigned to take charge of Co. C. 

November 17. Now Lieut. Farmer has command of Co. C in 
stead of Lieut. Donnell. 

November 22. Drew two months' pay to-day. 

November 26. No drilling to-day, as it is Thanksgiving Day. 

November 29. Fourteen hundred prisoners have been brought 
to town and still more coming. The Doctors are busy vacinating 
the boys, as there is smallpox in town. 

November 30. There have 2,000 more rebel prisoners arrived. 

December 3. We got some varnish and varnished our gunstocks, 

December 4. Two trains came in with 880 prisoners and some 
wounded. Another train full of prisoners came in and some de- 
serters, some 360 in number. 

Jan. 12, 1864. The 83d is on their way home, having re-enlisted. 



February I. The 64t!i is in town on tbeFr way fiome. Tbey' 
have re-enlisted. 

February 16. Capt. Scott is going to Coliambus, O., after new 
recruits. 

March 10. Drew two months' pay. 

March 17. There was a meeting- called to ascertain the opiniotB 
concerning the dismissal of Lieut. Col, Bowman from the 102d. 

March 18. Lieut. Col. Bowman's dismissal by the President 
and War Department was read before the regiment. 

March 21. The 64th has returned from home. 

March 22. The 15th regiment arrived. 

March 24. The 15th Ewys have left afoot for Chattanooga; the 
word is there is 15 regiments to leave here this morning. The 
64th and 15th have not left today, 
. March 25. The ISth regiment left for the front. 

March 29. Orders to be ready to march at a moment's warning 
with two days' rations. 

April 6. Eight men from each company, with seven Sergeants 
with sixty rounds ot cartridges were detailed to go on a scout 
somewhere. 

April 12. The boys that left here the 7th are 18 miles up the 
river. 

April 21. The boys that were up the river got back. 

April 24, Marching orders to go to Tullahoraa. 

April 25. Packed overcoats to be shipped to us, 

April 26. Marched to Chattanooga depot, and at six o'clock 
part of the regiment left tor Tullahoma, but we are still here. 
Boarded the train at sunset and reached Tullahoma at two o'clock. 

April 27. Marched out in the commons and halted to rest. At 
ten o'clock marched four miles up the railroad to a watertank. 
There are thirty privates, two Sergeants and three Corporals in 
our squad. 

May 8. Some rumor of Forest in the neighborhood. 

May 12. George H. Bowman is back in the regiment, said to be 
re-instated. 

May 20. Received four months' pay to-day. 

May 22. Last night a torpedo was placed on the track. It blew 
up the road, and this morning when the train came up it ran off 
the road upsetting four cars and doing much damage. This hap- 
pened four miles south of Tullahoma, 

June 5. Thirty of the 137th Ind, One* Hunrded day men came 
to relieve us. Our squad returned to Tullahoma. Our regi 



meat ia about ready to leave Tullahoma. 

June 6. At 9 o'clock the regiment left for Bellfonte, Ala., alonn:- 
the Tennessee River. Being sick, I was left behind to get on th^- 
cars. 

June 7. Left Tullahoma at 9 and reached Cowan Station at 11. 
Reached Bass Station at 2. Lay over on account of a bridge givini^^ 
way between here and Chattanooga. 

June 8. The regiment came up and camped hear by. 

June 9. At 2:30 marched to Stevenson, Ala., and are now await- 
ing transportation to Bellfonte. At eleven at night we started and 
reached Bellfonte in half an hour, distance ten miles, and camped 
for the night 

June 10. Marched two miles to Bellfonte, or where the ruins of 
it are, Camped in the woods near the ruins. 

June 11. The left wing is ready to go down the river some 13 
miles, and Co. C to some other place; so the regiment is all cut up 
into squads. We are going to stay in town and quarter in some 
building. 

June 12. The boys are putting up our bunks in the old Printing 
House. 

June 17. We send out a squad of patrols to the river every day. 
They brought In three rebel deserters. 

June 25. Gen. Smith's Division in going throngh here on their 
way to Chattanooga. 

Jttly 8. Twenty-six deserters came in with our boys from th« 
river 

July 9. Two rebel deserters came in; they were tired, having 
swam the river. 

July 10. Fifteen men with Capt. Zody went up to Co, F to cross 
the river on a raid. Two of their boys are supposed to be cap- 
tured, having crossed the river this morning. 

July 11. The scouts came bach from Co. F and Sergeant Good- 
ridge and Sergeant Cramer from Co. F, were both captured after 
killing one rebel and wounding another. 

July 12. We drew two months' pay. 

July 19. We got word the rebels hung Goodridge and Cramer. 

July 20. Twenty rebel deserters came in of their own accord. 

July 23. The boys at the river brought in two prisoners, one 
a Lieutenant. We have word that Sherman has marched into At- 
lanta on the 23d. 

August 6. Five more rebel deserters came up. 

August 10. The scouts v/ent across the river and returned safe 



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at night, but were fired into recrossing- the river. 

Aujrust 17. Four more rebel deserters. 

Aui^ust 19. The cavalry brouj^ht in four more prisoners. 

August 22. 'J'hree rebels came in ot their own accord. 

August 23. Eighty-five of us marched to Stevenson, thirteen 
miles, to-day. 

Aug^ust 24. Nine of us went 1>^ miles up the railroad to a block- 
house and relieved twenty-fv)ur from the 135th Ind. » 

August 31. There are but few cars running to-day on account 
of Wheeler being on a raid along the road. 

September 1. Ordered to report at Stevenson. Returned there. 
At sunset got aboard train and landed at Bellfonte, where we joined 
xhe regiment, 

September 2. Boarded the cars this morning, passed through 
Scottsboro, Larkinsville and Huntsville, within three miles of°De- 
catur, then took to the right and landed at Athens at 3 p. m. Here 
we expected to meet Wheeler or Roddy, but were too late. Thej 
tore up the railroad track out north and cut the wires., At sunset 
the construction train went out and we went with them. They 
worked all night, the road is badly damaged. They also burned a 
sawmill. 

September 3. The word is they are fighting at Pulaski. 

September 4. Marched to Pulaski, reaching there at 10:30. 
Next marched to Linnville Station and here the rebels were burn- 
ing some corn on a car, and the road burnt, so that we made after 
them and their cavalry and our skirmishers had quite a skirmish. 

September 5. We hear that Wheeler has 6,000, We captured 
several of them The 35th Illinois and 6th Ind. boj's on their way 
home were in the skirmish. We then started back south. Some 
citizens set fire to the road and two of our cars ran off the track. 
We have them prisoners. Returned to Pulaski, then out to Linn- 
ville again and back to Pulaski. 

September 6. Went out to Linnville, The telegraph oflBce is 
burned down. Then back to Pulaski. 

September 8. Started south at 7;30; at ten are back at Elk Riv- 
er, then started north, and at twelve returned to Pulaski. 

September 9. Went north 20 miles, then came back to Linn- 
ville Station; stopped for dinner, then back to Pulaski. After go- 
ing to bed, 100 of us were ordered out in the country three miles 
to where were 50 bushwhackers camped. Went and found noth- 
ing but a burning lime-kiln, then returned to camp. 

September 11. Started north at 3 p. m, and preached Columbia 



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at 8:00, a distatice of 33 miles. Now we are within 45 miles of 
Nashville. 

September 12. At 7 a. m. left for Pulaski, reached there at 12, 
t'jen 100 men were detailed to guard Maj. Gen. Rosseau to Nash- 
ville. 

September 13. The 100 that guarded Rosseau returned to camp. 
We only went as far as Pleasant G-rove. 

September 14. Another move. We are at Athens, 107 miles 
from Nashville. Next left for Decatur. Reached the river and 
camped by the station for the night. Wc are now 127 miles from 
Nashville, 

September 15 Crossed the Tennessee River on the pontoon 
bridge and are now at Decatur, Ala. 

September 18. All the able men in the regiment started on a 
scout with two days* rations for Summerville to take some rebels. 
Marched 10 miles and met the cavalry with some- prisoners and 
horses; then about fared and marched three miles and camped for 
the night in the woods. 

September 19. At nine reached camp, 

September 24. Part of the regiment left last night for Athens. 
There has been cannonading going on all forenoon. At two we 
left Decatur on the cars and went out near to Athens. We found 
it in the rebels' hands and their force too strong for us, so returned 
to Decatur. 

September 25. We are waiting reinforcements from Chatta- 
nooga. We have word that all our boys with Lieutenant Colonel 
Elliott are captured. The pickets were attacked and all moved in 
the fort. 

September 26. Our whole brigade are in the fort. Next the 
102d moved out on a scout 2/^miles. Found no rebels and returned 
to the fort. 

September 27. At ten the brigade started out on a scout. Went 
ten and a half miles south toward Danville, stopped for supper 
and reached camp at 10 p. m. 

September 29. The 13th Wisconsin regimest moved to Hunts- 
ville. 

October 2. There 5vas fighting at Athens; rebels whipped out 
complete this time. 

October 4. Our regiment is pretty well scatered : some in the 
rebel's hands; some at Athens; some at Huntsville; some at Pulas- 
ki; some here, and a few at Nashville. 

October 6. At dusk our boys came from Athens. 



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October II. We are working- on a boom-proof. 
October 13. Got word that our Lieut. Col. Elliott is dead. 
October 17. Five deserters from Hood's army came in. 
October 18 Five captured rebels were brought in, then seven 
came in. 

October 1^. Three more rebels came in. Then 100 men from 
the regiment, ten from each company, were detailed to go on a g-un- 
boat with Capt. Scott. Forty rebels came in last nig-ht, and they re- 
port Hood coming this way with 40,000 troops. 

October 22. The 100 men have got back from the gunboat. 
October 24, At one o'clock firing commenced among the caval- 
ry and soon became general, and the batteries played each on the 
other till 5- Canonnading continued till dusk. The rebels have 
four camp fires around this place in sight of our picket post. 

October 27. Some 30 rebels missed their post in the night. 
They wanted to know whether we were Cheatham's men. I an- 
swered, no, and as we fired on them they disappeared in the fog. 
At eight o'clock we fell into line and exchanged pills with them 
till two. Was then relieved and came into camp. The ball closed 
at dusk. 

October 28. Our pickets were driven in at three this morning. 
At daybreak firing began again. Our boys charged on their rifle- 
pits and captured 108 loafers. Ball went out about noon, then fir- 
ing commenced again. Reinforcements coming all afternoon. 
October 29. Skirmishing going on until four oclock. 
October 30. At three in the night there was a false alarm, 
November 2. At two o'clock our pickets on the Courtland road 
were fired into. We were ordered out; went out two miles and 
saw no enemy. 

November 4. Our scouts report two brigades of rebel cavalry 
two miles out. 

November 6. Two regiments and two pieces of artillery and 
our regiment started out on the Courtland road with some 
cavalry in advance, and went four miles aud ran into some rebel 
cavalry, and wounded one; then our skirmirshers and cavalry ran 
them some four miles, and finding they would not stand fire, re- 
turned to ca mp. By three in the evening the rebels let loose on us 
with a small howitzer, but it passed over us doing no damage. 

November 7. One man is missing from Co. D after yesterday's 
raid. 

November 8. Went to headquarters and voted for Presi- 
dent, 



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Novern'ber 10. Got a iiew recruit m 'Co. C by name of John 
Wise. 

November 14, We are on the Courtland road. The rebel pick- 
ets are one mile from here. At 11 we tof)k everything inside the 
fort ready for aa attack. At one the cavalry went out this road t© 
feel the enemy. Was some skirmishiog- among the cavalry this 
•evening'. 

November 21. Drew four months' pay. 

November 23. At noon our pickets were driven in part way. 
We had orders to fall in, and marched to the fort, A few shells 
from Beech's Battery boys scattered the enemy- 
November 24. The 3d Michigan moved out at S a. m. 

November 25. Most of the troops left this morning. At 12 the 
enemy made three approaches and skirmishingcommenccdlamong 
the cavalry, At 2 we retreated across the river, then the rebels 
made a bold charge on the empty fort. We destroyed the pontoon 
bridge and the battery and gunboats are playing on the burned 
tow-n and fort, as we set fire to most of the buildings before leav- 
ing. At sunset we slung knapsacks and marched ten miles, then 
camped for the night, 

November 26. Started on the march at daybreak, reached 
Huntsville at 9 at night, distance 25 miles. 

November 27. Started at eight, went outside of town and lay 
till 11, then marched to Brownsville, ten miles, and camped. 

November 28. Marched past Paint Rock one mile, then on and 
camped for the night, distaDcel5 miles. 

November 29. Marched till one oclock, then the rebels and our 
cavalry had quite a skirmish, and we formed in line, and such a 
running with refugees and negroes I never saw. We slarted again 
— up came the rebels again. We formed again and let them come 
up. The battery opened on them, so they stopped firing, and we 
marched on to Larkinsville and camped for the night, distance 13 
miles, 

November 30. Left Larkinsville at seven and marched 5 miles 
to Scottsboro, and here we stayed till two, the roads being so bad, 
then marched eight miles near Bellfonte and camped for the 
night. 

December 1. Left camp at 11, marched through Bellfonte and 
camped within thref miles of Stevenson for the night. We marched 
some 12 miles to-day, the roads being very deep. 

December 2. Marched to Stevenoon. Got word tbatTullanoma 
is evacuated. 



December 3. Cunimtrnications cat off; no nrews;^ moved' onr 
camp one mile from town. 

December 4. Our teams are coming in on the cars, as there 
was no bridge across Grow Creek, and thej all bad to be loaded on 
the ears, it ran o£f the track last night and killed four men, 

December 8. Every soldier, citizen and negro are at work on; 
the fortSy 

December 9. Fifty-eight of us are guarding ammunition at the 
old log church. 

December 13. Everyone working- on the fortifications. 

December 14. We have word that the rebels are around Nash- 
ville. No trains from there yet.' 

December 19. Under marching orders. I am detailed to gc 
with the teams.^ Our brigade is ordered back to Decatur. We 
are all ready with five days' rations. 

December 22, '^ent to- the river with the teams, lay at Capus- 
ton's Landing till the 18th Mich.. 74th Ind and ISth Wis. loaded 
their wagons, and it took about all night. 

December 23. At 5 we commenced to load our wagons and at 9 
started down the river. Landed at Whitesboro, landing at 3. 
Found most of our brigade here, distance 90 miles. Unloaded our 
wagons, and at eight at night the brigade slung knapsacks for 
Huntsville, then oar wagons were loaded and at ten got aboard the 
boat and anchored till morning, 

December 24. The boys brought in a fine pig and we had fresh 
pork for dinner. We slew five fine hogs for Christmas. We were 
on picket, then came back to Whitesboro Landing. At dusk the 
brigade came back from Huntsville. Then the wagons were taken 
off the boat and at three at night the fleet started down the river. 

December 27. We can hear canonnading in the direction ol De- 
catur. The 73d are now fixing their wagons to leave. 

December 28. Our boys charged on Decatur yesterday at sun- 
set — good. 

December 29. Loaded our wagons on the Tennessaw and at 12 
started down the river and landed at Decatur at 4:30 and found 
the 102d and 18th Mich. here. 

The rebels left this place without a charge, as I stated yester* 
day they had done. 

December 30. Some forty rebels were brought in to-day. 

December 31. Went down to the river and crossed and went to 
Huntsville on the cars on a scout by daybreak. 

anuary 3, 1865. Some of our captured officers have come back- 



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Jantiary 6. Steadman s torces are coTrung- back from their raid. 
They are now crossing- the p ntoon bridge. Part of the 4th Corps 
iare now here; the 64th is here. 

January 10. Some of our boys started with a lot of prisoners to 
T^ashville. 

January 12. Ther€ is a flag of truce out at the cotton gin for 
some purpose unknown to me. 

January 13. Our flag of truce and the rebel flag have met out- 
side the pickets for some purpose. 

January 18. There wis a detail of 60 men, Lieut. Donnell, Co. 
E and Capt. Scott in command to go to Sulphur Tressel with ten 
days' rations. Sulphur Tressle is between Athens and Pulaski. 

January 20. The boys that went to Nashville with prisoners 
have returned. We have tvord that Fort Fisher is ours. 

January 31. The Government hands are busy putting up build' 
ings for supplies. A lot ol carpenters came from Nashville. 

February 17. It has been so windy to-day that it sunk part of 
the pontoon bridge. 

February 22. Fired the signal guns and gave three cheers on 
account of the fall of Fort Sumpter. 

Feoruary 26. There are a lot of rebel cavalry outside our pick- 
ets made their appearance to our left and a flag of truce to our 
right. I can't find out what it means. A private can't find out 
much about matters. 

March 2. Am granted a furlough of 30 days. 
April 3. My furlough is extended 25 days. The word is Rich- 
mond is taken. 

April 8. Folks are jollfiying over late victories. 
April 15. Heard that Lincoln was shot. 
April 25. Started back to the regiment to-day. 
April 28. At Nashville about 1,000 prisoners of Lee's army, 
some almost clothesless. 

April 20. Reached Decatur at 11. 

May 4. At S a scout of 100 men started out somewhere. We 
heard of the explosion of the steamer Sultana. Most all of our 
boys that were captured at Athens were aboard and were lost. 

May 10. The 100 scouts came back, having killed the guerrilla 
Captain Berry and several others. 

May 13. First there was a flag of truce, then any number of 
rebels coming in to be paroled. 

May 14. The capture of Jeff. Davis was read. 

May 18. There was quite a lot of Roddy's men came in. 



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May 23'. Part of t&e 5th Ind. cavalry catme Bere thi% marnrng-,. 

Mav 27. Nominated Col. Given asadeleg-ate from this regiment 
logo to Columbus convention. 

June 13. Took ammunition acro&s the river and loaded it on the 
ears to ship it to sK)me sater place. 

June 16, We hear that the cars ran oS the track at Athens, don't 
know what damage it has done. 

June 20. An order comes for the 102d to leave this post inside 
of three days. 

June 24, Crossed tbe poDtoon bridge at 7 gotoa the cars and 
reached Pulaski at 12. 

June 25. Reached Nashville at 6-30 this morning. 

June 26. The 18th Mich, was mustered out. 

June 30, 1865. We are mustered out of the service. 

July 2. Reached Louisville at 11:30; marched to the landing- 
and boarded the Major Anderson. 

July 3. Landed at Cincinnati at 6. Left Cincinnati and reached 
Calumbus at 6 p. m, 

July 4, Marched out to the Arsenal to turn over our guns. 

July 6. The 174th O. is here waiting to be discharged. 

July 7. Paid at last. Left Columbus at two o'clock for home. 



Company I's First Night on Picket. 



One beautiful Sunday morning Co. I, while in the service at 
Covington, Ky., was detailed to do picket duty for the first time. 
We marched out the Lexington pike about three milesand stopped 
at a deserted farm house, said to be owned and abandoned by an 
officer in the rebel army. We took possession.and threw out pickets 
at various point on the pike andon the side hill on the right and the 
reserve were stationed in an orchard opposite the mansion. The 
boys found plenty of grapes and other truit. 

Nothing recurred worthy of note during the day, but at dusk 
some of the under officers asked permission to take a squad out 
the pike to do a little scouting. Passing out about a mile beyond 
the post we came to fork of the road leading to the right up the 
hill. Here we found evidence of a picket post, but no pickets. 
Passing a half mile further on we met the cavalry pickets coming 



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in, who rep(jried thai tfaey found no evidence of the enemy, so we 
returned, the videttes to the forks of the road, and we remained 
about 200 yards beyond, throwing- out two pickets up the hill to the 
right at an old stable. Henry Judd and I were put upon the second 
relief and went about 10 o'clock to relieve our comrades. Soon af- 
ter reachinor our station, we heard a great racket -coming- up the 
pike. The night was very still so that we could hear the noise a 
distance off. The noise sounded to us as if a company of cavalry 
were coming up the pike. We left our post and returned to the 
place where we left the others near the pike. I missed the wav 
and had a hard time g-etting- down the steep hill, but when I reached 
the place I found none but Mose Moore, who was sound asleep T 
awakened him, and he gathered up his g-un and other things and 
immediately left; but I remained and by this time the parties which 
was making all this racket came opposite me and I could see exact- 
ly what it was; it proved to be a one or two-horse carnage with a 
horse leading behind. This I knew was not very dangerous, so I 
went up the hill again to my post; but before I got there I heard 
firing up towards where the videttes were stationed at the forks 
of the road. The firing soon ceased, but nothing came back in the 
shape of a carriage. So I remained at my post until I thought it 
was time for the relief to come; but none coming, I left return' 
to the camp, and when I got to the top of the descent, some one 
at the pike cried, 'Halt! Who comes there?" I answered, "Me " 
Atfirst I thought it was one of our Co. I boys, but then discover- 
ing my mistake, I answered; "one of the Infantry pickets." H 
said after I had got down the hill, "was vou out 'jereall this time?" 
-Yes," said I, "I was standing right here when the carriage went 
up the pike." "Why." said he, "You are the bravest man in this 
brigade." This man was the Sergeant of the cavalry picket I 
asked him ivhat was all that firing for, and he said they had been 
attacked by the rebels. I told him "rebels nothing. I was standing 
right here, and saw nothing but a carriage with a horse leading be- 
hind.*' At first be would not believe'me but insisted that it 
a company of cavalry. 

Now what was the object of all this? The pickets retired be- 
yond the forks of the road and the carriage turned up the by-road' 
up the hill, and that was just what they wanted, and why they 
wanted to do so probably will never be known except to th 
selves. 

When I returned to the company I found them under great ex- 
citement, but when I told them just what it was they could hardly 



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believe it, anfl Henry Judrf tried" to make out that I vas asleep, and 
when I wanted to shoot him, they had to take my gun away from 
me. When it is considered that I vvas only a sixteen year old boy 
it is no wonder that I was not scared. I did not know enoug-h to 
be afraid. I hav^e often ihougfht how I could have captured the 
whole outfit, but "where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise." 

This was the first experience of Co. I on picket, but after- 
wards we performed many amusing- as well asdang-erous exploits, 

Gkokge S. Schmutz. 



On the Ohio River. 

EMBARKING on a river steamer, "The Arizona," the righ- 
wing of the 102d Regiment met some difficulties on account 
of the low stage of the river. The boat ran aground and 
tried to get off by placing the boys on a barge along side taken 
for that purpose. This failed and the boys took advantage of the 
delay and went in swimming. One of the boys, I think he was nick- 
named "Blind Robbin," in spc.rt pushed against the barge and 
said, "I am goimg to push this darned old boat off." He had no 
notion of doing so, but feeling it move, he cried, "Come on, boys, 
its moving." Others took hold and pushed the boat clear of the 
obstruction, and such a scramble to get aboard you never saw be- 
fore. 



The correspondents of the home papers cover the ground pret- 
ty thoroughly, so we will let them tell the story of our march 
through Kentucky from Louisville to Bowling Green. It was my 
misfortune to give out at Crab Orchard, and after returning to 
Danville and Perrysville in the ambulance, I took up the march 
again, but again giving out, I was taken to Bocvling Green on the 
cars along with others, and went into convalescent camp and re- 
mained there until after the regiment had been in the corn-stock 
camp a week or ten days, when I returned to the company and did 
duty with the rest. 

Here at Bowling Green the regiment got its first experience 



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in battallion drill. The camp was moved to the south side of thi 
town near the railraod. Col. Given had not learned much towards- 
driliin;^ the reg-iment, but forunately Col. Joshua Given, Col.Given's 
brother, of an Iowa regiment was with us and was a fine drillmas- 
ter. Nearly every afternoon found us on the field going- through 
the maneuvers of battallion drill. Then it was our good fortune to 
have Gen. Robert Granger, who took great pride in drilling the 
regiment, and through his efforts the 102d became quite proficient 
in the vaiious movements. The duty at Bowling Green was very 
hard, consisting of picket duty one day and work on fortifications 
and battallion drill the next. So it went on from day to day. 

The regiment's next move was to Russellville, where we re- 
ceived our new Springfield rifles, received by the personal efforts 
of Cai. Given. The regiment remained here about two weeks, 
v/hen orders, came to move to Clarksville, Tenn., about 30 miles 
south-west, on the Cumberland River. At Russellville I met with 
a sad loss. My white woolen shirt needed laundering very badly, 
so 1 proceeded to put out my "family wash." When I got it to the 
boiling stage 1 let the kettle go dry, and about half of the shirt 
went up in smoke. Near camp were some walnut trees with the 
ground literally covered with walnuts. I ate too many of them 
which made me sick, and when the regiment got marching orders 
I was unable to go with them. The 102d made the march in due 
time and reached the place theday before Christmas, and had a hard 
time getting across Red River, a tributary to the Cumberland. 

The first camp was situated near a Female Seminary in the 
out skirts of the town, which was used as a hospital in charge of 
Dr. Mitchel. This camp was in rather an unhealthy location, so 
about April 1 the regiment moved to Camp Bruce, named for Col. 
Bruce, commander of the Post. This camp was situated on an 
eminence beyond the Red River and the guns of the Fort com- 
manded the town of Clarksville, about two miles from the Fort. 
Here the camp was finely situated and the regiment was never in 
a mere healthy place. There was a boat landing near the camp 
and the boys appropriated it as a bathing place. During the sum- 
mer nearly every evening found the river full of the boys in blue. 
In the bed of the river were many muscle shells, and the boys 
dove for them to make shell jewely — rings, breast-pins, etc., to 
send home to friends. A funny incident occurred in Co. I. One 
hot day the company streets were deserted, and John Gill sat in the 
cook shanty ruobinga shell on a brick, when the writer stuck his 
head out of his tent and saw John at work. Tiring of his work, he 



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got a metallic cartridg-e, and laid if down on the ground and begsn 
to strike at it with an ax handle to see if it wouKl "gfy off." He 
finally hit it a v.'hacU and it exploded with aloud noise. Theorders' 
were, no shootjng in camp. John immediaiely resumed his rub- 
bing operation as if nothing had happened and the writer put his 
bead back into the tent. Soon an officer came along- the street and 
inquired, "who fired that gun?" Of course, nobody knew, and 
when be came to our tent I told bim. "I don't know; g-uess it wai* 
over in Co. C." He asked John, and got the same answer and had 
to report his failure to find out. 

On July 4. 1863, was marched to a fine grove not far from 
camp and Col. Given made a fine patriotic address and the boys 
were treated to the lemonade.. 

The regiment at Clarksvllle was drilled by Lieut. Col. Bowman 
who had become quite expert in the various movements of battal- 
lion drill. The time was taken up in doing provost and picket 
duty, and sometimes this duty was pretty hard, the details coming 
every other nay, often calling for extra duty, but all in all, the 
boys were quite content with their duties. The rations were 
prett}' fair, but at one time the meat we drew was full of life, and 
a sample was taken to Col. Given for his inspection. He told the 
boys to use what they could and that there were some bogs near, 
and we were not long in taking the hint and the hogs, and we had 
fresh pork for rations. Complaint was made by the citizens to 
Col. Bruce, who ordered Col. Given to report immediately to head- 
quarters. The Colonel reported in person in full uniform and in- 
formed Col. Bruce that he was ranking Colonel and that he would 
take command of the Post if things were not right. Col. Given 
would rather remain in command of the regiment than have com- 
mand of the Post. 

Much dissatisfaction was manifest in some of the companies 
at the promotions occasioned by the resignation of officers. Thi» 
was noticed inCo. I. Capt. Robison and Lieut. Ross resigned on ac- 
ountof disability, and Lieut. Beerbower was promoted to Captain 
and a vacancy occurred in 1st and 2d Lieutenants. David Hinkle, 
Sergeant, was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and Tom Miller, lat Ser- 
geant, was promoted to 2d Lieutenant. This was considered a 
rank injustice by the members of the company. Then to cap the 
climax Milt McHose, the Captain's cook, was promoted to Order- 
ly Sergeant, and mutiny came near being the result. The matter 
was finally adjusted by some members of the company raising a 
fund and purchasing a new uniform and sword and sash for Lieut, 



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"Tom Millef. Lieut, Miller took the corfj pan v oiit to drill one morn- 
'in«^, and excusing some of the '"shorties" Irom drill, he formed 
'ihe company with a dozen sis footers at the head. Then tbe 

fun be|fan. For more ttian an hour he took the company on the 
•■•doubie <|uick throug-h the various evolutions. Poor Milt McHose 
was nowhere. Most of the time he was anywhere but tbe right 
place as an Orderly Sergeant,and when the company was dismis^^ed 
to quarters, the "Orderly Serg-eant" reported to the Captain that 
^'he guessed he did not want to be Orderly Sergeant" 

While the regiment wascamped at Clarksville details were 
made to go down the Cumberland River on the "hay-clad gunboat." 
The Lieutenant in command of the battery on the boat would 
train his gun on the mouth of the railroad tunnel and at the propt- 
er time fire a shell into the tunnel, and woe to any reb who was in 
the tunnel. Then the boat would run on down the river and on 
reaching the other end of the tunnel would swing around and the 
gunner would plant a shell into the tunnel. The explosion of the 

shell would make a muffled noise and fill the tunnel with smoke 
Then upon reaching the ruins of Palmyra^ he would practice fir^ 
Jing at the tall chimneys left standing. 



Forgot the Countersign. 

One night when the provost guards in Clarksville were patroll- 
ing the streets, one guard asked his comrade, "what's the coun- 
tersign?" "Darned if I know," was 'the answer; so we went on 
until we met the next patrol. We halted them and demanded the 
countersign. The guards had to admit that they too had forgotten 
the countersign. We had to go to headquarters to get the coun- 
tersign. 



A Trip To Russellville, Kentucky* 

f^hen the 102d was yet in their first camp a detail was made 
to guard a wagon train to go to Russelville, Ky., to get some boxes 
of provisions which had been sent to the boys from friends in the 
north. I desired to sro on this trio and asked to be put on the de„ 



lail, uuL was refused. My reason for wanting to g-o was that my 
brother Joseph Schmutz, of Co. B, was in the hospital at Russell- 
ville and I wanted to go to see him. I went to the Colonel and 
stated my case to him and he gave me a note to the effect that I 
was put on the detail. The next morning- we went prepared with 
two days' rations in our haversacks, and reported at Col. Given 's- 
tent, and he made us a little speech as to the importance of our 
duty in an enemy's country. I can almost yet hear his urgent re- 
quest to "be vigilant." About three or four miles out I noticed 
a large tobacco barn 100 rods from the road and told the toys that 
on Dur return I was going to have some of that tobacco. 

That night we camped in a grove near a church where we took 
up our quarters. Nothing happened on the trip, and after secur- 
ing and loading our wagons with the nice thing and commissary 
stores for the boys returned to Clarksville, camping at the church 
where we camped the night before. When we came to the tobacco- 
barn I left my gun in the wagon and ran on ahead and got my 
blouse full of "Joe Push." I did not use the weed, but supplied 
the boys with tobacco, and tried to make some cigars, but I had 
not learned the cigar trade, and so made a failure. 



The boys wanted to get on post of the crossing at Red River 
at hii^h water, so they could get a chance to make a little money 
by ferrying citizens across the river. Sometimes they would make 
quite a little spending money. 



Old Persimmons. 

None of the correspondents made any mention of the way Ma- 
jor Topping went after strae-glers, who would break ranks at sight 
of a persimmon tree. The fruit was plenty all through Kentucky, 
but not ripe, and one bite into a persimmon would stop whistling 
for a few days at least. The Major had so much trouble with the 
boys aud persimmons that we called him "Persimmons." The 
epithet stuck to him until he resigned, and some said that was the 
reason he resigned, but that was hardly the truth. 



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Pay Day. 

Pay day was a time of excitement in the reg'iment. A short 
time before pa}' day we were mustered for pay. The muster roll 
of each company was made out by the company officers, and then 
we were marched up to the paymaster, who counted out the "green- 
backs'' to us. Then a rush to the sutler was in order. The sut- 
ler did a land office business for some time as long- as the "long 
g-reen" held nut, Arrangeraenis were made by the officers to send 
some of the money home to the wives and mothers of the boys. 



One of the picket posts on the east side of Clarksville was sit- 
uated at a sawmill near the river At different times the boys on 
that post reported strange and mysterious things happened. One 
said that while he was on duty something in the shape of an ani- 
mal made its appearance, ard acttd somewhat like a hog. He said 
he got close enough to punch it with his bayonet, and it sounded 
like an old dried cow hide over the object. This scared John more 
than ever, and he called up the post, but nothing- could be seen or 
heard. 



Off to Nashville. 

September 21, 1863 the 102d got marching orders to leave 
Clarksville, and made the distance of 50 miles in easy stages, 
reaching- Nashville the 3d day. We marched through Nashville in 
grand style and made an imposing display, and were marched to 
a common near the Chattanooga depot, where we lay until evening 
awaiting transportation. The regiment went to Elk River, where 
the left wing was stationed under command of Col. Bowman, and the 
right wing- went on to Cowan Station, near the foot of the Cumber- 
land Mouneoins. 



The iith and 12 th Corps Through Nashville. 

While the 102d was at Cowan Station and Elk River I was left 
back at Nashville in a convalescent camp not far from the city, and 



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v\iiiie ilieie iraia load alter tram load ot tbe li'th and IZih Corps. 
of the Eastern Army passed through Nashville to reintorce Ros- 
encrarja at the front. This made considerable excitement. Part 
of the time I was at the ZoUicoffer House in the city, the unfinished' 
hotel that was started building- at the outbreak of the war. Here 
we did not get enough to eat, and the boys would stand inline and 
ran in the second time^ but they got on to this and as we stood at the 
table they would mark on the backs of our blouses. I v/as lucky 
enough to have two blouses, so at the end of the first table I would 
rush up to my room and change blouses^ then go in to the seconds 
table. 

I stayed here until the regimeot came back from Cowan Sta-> 
tion and Elk River, when I returned to the regiment and reported 
for duty Nov. 1,1863. 



The Cold New Years Day. 

None of the correspontents have mentioned the coldest day 
of our service. I will try to describe it. On the last day of 
the year 1863 we had a nice balmy day. I came oflf patrol duty in 
Nashville in tbe morning, and on tbe way across the tressle I had 
to take off my blouse, it was so warm. In the afternoon we were 
all in our shirt sleeves and some were playing ball. At 4 p. m. it 
began to blow cold from the morthwest, and by 5 o'clock we had 
to put on our overcoats and build fires to keep warm. The next 
morning it was so cold that we nearly froze. I bad to go on guard 
mount, and marched to the city to do guard duty. It was impos- 
sible to keep the post warm. There was no stir in the city, as all 
were compelled to seek shelter from the cold blasts. At night we 
were locked out of our warm places during the day on our beats, 
and had to find other places. The cold snap lasted but a day or 
two and sooq got much warmer. 



Guarding a Wagon Train. 

A re ail was made from the 102d tojaccompany a wagon train 
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«our desfinatioii. We prepared two days"* rations and started ear- 
ly across the Cumoerland River, throug-h Edeg-efield and rode all 
day. About 2 o'clock we met seme hucksters going- into Nashville 
lor €:irly Saturday morning- market. We passed the first one and 
wondered why we could uotg-et a chicken for our supper. I pro- 
posed that if we met another I would go on ahead and see what 
could be found. Soon v^^e saw one on ahead, and I ran on ahead to 
investigate. As I came opposite our team, reached in the coop and 
got a fine hen, and threw it in to the boys in the waggon. Soon the 
man jumped out of his wagon and demanded his chicken. I told 
him I did not have bis chicken, and turned to rejoin my comrades. 
So when I got to the wagon we wondered why we didn't g-et anoth- 
er one, as one Vv'ould not be enoug:h for all of us. Soon we met an- 
other huckster and played the same trick and g-ot a fine rooster. 
When we arrived at our destination we found the wag-ons were to 
be loaded with lumber at a sav\'mill, and we eng-aged the ladies who 
lived there, to cook our chickens, and we furnished them with cof- 
fee, the first they had had for a long- time. Think, chicken and 
biscuit and gravy, yum, yam. And the ladies were as well pleased 
with the coffee as we were with the chickens. In the morning- we 
-emptied our coffee, sugar and salt sacks and left them enough to 
Jast them a long time. We got back to camp iu the evening with- 
out further incident. 



Tricks in Camp. 

The boys often played tricks on each other in camp. One of 
these tricks was to load a pipe with powder and put some tobacco 
on top, then light it, then offer it to some one to see him blow up. 
Once at Nashville Ed Hoegner fixed his pipe in this way and of- 
fered it to me. The pipe did not "go off" for some time and Ed 
forgot about it and was showing something to the others. Hooked 
over Ed's shoulder and the pipe was almost under his nose when it 
exploded and Ed got most of the effect of the explosion in his face 
No harm was done, however, and he tried to get mad, but it was 
too fnnny, and he had to laugh at the disastrous turn of his own 
trick. 



At Estill Springs, Hen. Maginnes went into the room wh 



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refuse sink, thus makiog the prison in a good sanitary condition. 

I will give a full description of one day's life, nearly every day 
being alike. In the morning at about 6:30 we were aroused and 
driven back to the rear of the building and a line of guards formed 
and each prisoner passed through between two bayonets, and 
counted by the rebel Sergeant, and if the count tallied with the 
number on the roll, all was right. The prisoners were divided in- 
to companies of one hundred and the companies into messes of ten 
each. As soon as counted through some of each mess passed out 
through the entrance tD where our cooking was done. Vv'e drew 
corn meal and a little beef. Our breakfast consisted of corn meal 
gruel and a little meat, the gruel being made of the meat gravy. 
This was for ten men. After breakfast, Vvhich was between 9 and 
10 o'clock, we proceeded to bake three pones of corn bread in a 
Dutch oven. One of our mess would go to the gate and stand in 
line to go out to get fuel. This was green pine, and it took a great 
deal of coaxing to get it to burn. It made more smoke thas blaze- 
We stirred up the meal with nothing but water and a little salt, 
Then the Dutch oven would be fired above and below, and then 
the "dough" would be dumped in and by much blowing and coax- 
in<j- it would be baked. This way three pones v/ere baked each 
day. Our mess ate one pone for a lunch at noon, one for dinner 
about 4 p. m., with some meat broth or peas, and sometimes a lit- 
tle rice. Then we had one pone left over for breakfast the next 
dav. So it went on every day with but little change. On Christ, 
mas and New Year we drew an extra ration of beef and rice, and 
had a feast. Two men cooked a mess pan full of rice and ate every 
bit. 

The greatest scourge of prison life vv'as the ''gray backs." 
We had to exert great dilligence to keep clear ot the pests. A 
daily search was necessary if we enjoyed our peaceful slumbers on 
the bare ground or in the bunks. Some of the prisoners were 
careless about keeping themselves clear of the graybacks. One 
morning as we were being counted out I noticed a boy with some 
sores on his head, and upon examination found him full of lice. We 
held on to him until all were counted out, then we called "Rainey," 
he was the chief of police, and made his appearance. A detail took 
him to the trough and scrubbed him so that he did not want another 
dose. His hair cut close and ordered to keep himself clean. We 
had to do this for self preservation. 

Nothing out of the usual routine accurred, except a little scrap 
once in a while. 



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The Game ot Smut 

The boys played a game tbey called "smut. "At different 
places around the prison wall were places for light to light the 
prison at night. This made the brick wall black with soot. They 
g-ot permission of the guard to cross the dead line and rub theif 
hands against the wall, and then theyplayed the game of smut. The 
one who got smutted ran to hide, and the others ran to the wai 
^nd when found he was blacked good and plenty. This was grea^ 
fun for the boys as well as the guard, who enjoyed the sport* The 
pine soot was bard to get off. 

One of the prisoners was an es:pert at Catching small pieces of 
corn bread in his mouth thrown at him. Somehow the guards on 
the stockade found this out and they brought pieces ot corn bread 
and threw him pieces to see him catch them. He rarely failed if 
properly thown at him. One day some one-pitched a piece of bread 
and then a piece of white soap. He caugh the piece of soap but 
soon spit it out, making a wry face. 

The most stirring time had was when some of the prisoners 
planned to break out and liberate all the prisoners. This proved 
a failure, as we could not have escaped on account of the high wa- 
ter in the surrounding country. To find the ring leaders and pun- 
ish them we were stopped from going out to do our cooking, and 
had nothing to eat for three days and two nights. We had some 
corn meal and got some of it baked on the shares by one of the 
rebel guards. I actually tried to eat dry, raw corn meal 

About the 1st of March it commenced to rain and rained for 
five days until the prison was flooded from one to five feet deep. 
Much suffering was occasioned on account of not having- rooto to 
lie down. The bunks covered about one-third the space of the 
prison and were crowded to their fullest capacity and then hun- 
dreds had no place to get out of the water to sleep. This lasted 
for 2 nights. At night when the bunks were filled to their full 
capacity, and all quiet, one corner of the tier of bunks wonld sink 
and settle and prisoners piled out endishabille to prop it up 
again, and then all get in again, and everything quiet the same 
thing would happen to another corner, and so we got but 
litttle sleep. On the morning of the 6th of March a call was made 
to go out of prison. I was at the lower part of the prison when I 
Was called to hurry up. I rushed up through the water to get mv 
things and passed out over our windovv through a tier of bunks 



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to destroy oar communicatiotis. The dlfferetit comtiiMndfs under 
Gen. Rosseau bad not much difficult}^ in driving- Wheeler back 
across the Tennessee River, One building was burned, said to be 
tbat of the rebel Gen. Wheeler. 

We now returued to Decatur and went across the Tennessee 
River on a pontoon bridge, and went into camp near the deserted 
town. Several scouting' parties were sent out from here, as ru- 
mors of the enem3''s presence were reported by our scouts. 

In the early morning of the 24th of Septembar a detachment of 
200 of the 102d and ISOof the 18th Mich, was sent up the railroad 
towards Athens, and went on the cars to where the road was torrt 
up, and then marched on, never thinking that we were running in- 
to about 6,000 of Forest's cavalry. We v/ill let the correspondentc- 
tell the story of our capture. I will give my own personal experi- 
ence from my capture until roy return home, including the Saltans 
disaster. 



Captured at Athens, Alabama* 

When we left the cars, the road being destroyed and could pro- 
ceed DO further, we formed in line and marched forward and sooo 
met a force of the enemy. We retired behind a woodpile and thu?. 
fortified, but were soon flanked and had to get out of that. We 
entered the wood and I was in a roadway, when I noticed a Johnny 
taking aim. I jumped back out of the roadway into the brush, and 
I heard the bullet pass. He cooly proceeded to reload, and I took de- 
liberate aim, but my gun did not go off. Before entering the wood 
I saw a man on a white horse, I took careful aim but he still re- 
mained on his borse» We entered the wood and advanced some 
distance, when we halted and waited until we heard the rebels in 
in front of us. We fired a volley and Col. Elliott ordered, "Fix 
bayonets and charge!" We did so and drove everything in front 
of us, and advanced to wit'jtn 200 yards of the fort at Athens, and 
here we found our own guns turned on us, and we knew the fort 
had been surrendered, so we stacked arms and had to surrender 
too. Soon a force came up and began to help themselvs to our 
personal effects. We were then marched out and started towards 
the south. We vvere marched about 10 miles on the 24th, and 
camped in a field, and suffered from the cold, not having any 



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blankets, having' been robbed ot evervthlng'. The next day we 
paarched about 35 miles, near the river. The rebs did not need to 
halt ns for dinner, as we had nothing- to eat. The next morning 
We crossed the river on flat boats, I ffot a little something to eat 
by trading hats with a- Johnny, and that night we were in Tuscum- 
bia. On the way the second morning out from Athens I picked up 
a large quilt discarded by one of the rebs, so brother John and I 
tared a little better than we did the first night. Here we got a 
couple Johnny crackers, and the next day we marched to Chero- 
kee Station, where we awaited transportation further south. Here 
we were put on the cars and taken to Meridian, Miss., and held in 
held in a stockade ail night with scarcely anything to eat. The 
next morning we were taken to Corinth and a few miles beyoud 
Okalona; where we were wrecked. A tressle over a small stream 
broke down and some of the boys were killed, none of the 102d boys, 
however, and others injured. The rebel guards suffered more 
than we did according to their number. We were taken back to 
Okalona, and the bridge having been repaired, we were taken to 
Demopolis, and ferried across the Tombigbee, train and all, and ta- 
ken to Selraa, Ala., which we reached early the next morning. 
The trip from Demopolis to Selma was made in a drenching rain. 
We were put on a boat and taken down the Alabama River to Ca- 
haba, 10 miles. Here we were lined uo and searched and our 
names taken and turned into the prison, greeted with the cry of 
"fresh fish." 



Cahaba Prison. 

Thr prison was a large cotton warehouse on the bank of the riv- 
er, with a stockade all around it. This was hard lines for our boys, 
who were not used to such fare. The building was aboat 200 feet 
by 200 feet, all under cover but about one-quarter in the center. 
About half an acre on the east side of the building was within the 
enclosure of the stockade and was used to do our cooking. In the 
center of the town was a fine artesian well with a fine flow of water 
which was run through the prison under ground and in the center 
of the building this stream was run into three troughs, the upper 
of which we used for cooking and drinking, and the lower ones for 
washing and bathing. The overflow was run down through the 



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some of the boys had theif bunk?*. He fotiod a pipe, tobacco aad 
some cartridges on a window. Just as the owner came in to get 
his pipe* be found Maginnes with his pipe and he said he had a 
toothache, so thought he wonld take a smoke. The owner said^ 
"all right, go ahead." But Maginnes soon came back and laid it 
doVv^D, and said that he would not smoke, but take a chew for his 
''toothache." This looked rather suspicious, so the owner took 
bis knife and "unloaded" the pipe and found it nearly full of pow 
def wkh only a little tobacco on top. That trick didn't work. 



The io2cl at Tullahoma, Tennessee. 

The latter part of April, 1864, the 102d O. V. I. was moved to 
Tullahoma, Tenn., the left wing at Elk River, in command of Col. 
Elliott. iTetachments of the different companies were stationed 
along the raiload guarding the road from depredations of the bush" 
whackers. A detachment of Co. I was stationed at Estill Springs 
where were some water tanks and a pumping station for engines 
to take water. During the heated part ol the day the boys gath- 
ered under these tanks, because it was cool, and often some one 
would slip up and let a deluge of water down upon them. The 
railroad ties were made of red cedar wood. The old ties were 
used for fuel and made fine timber for whittling. Jake Seacrest 
made a sawmill and set it up on the stockade, and the power was 
furnished by the wind, the wooden saw would go up and down very 
fast. Lieutenant Dave Hinkle, in command of the detachment, 
made a set of three pincers, all from oae piece of wood, but just as 
he was finishing it a slip of the knife broke it, and what the Lieu- 
tenant said would not be fit to print here. 



Across the Cumberland Mountains. 

June 6, 1864, the 102d was ordered to gather in its detachments 
along the railroad and march across the Cumberland Mountains, 
When within 6 or 8 miles of the mountains they presnted a grand 
and imposing scene. Crossing the mountains we came into a 
beautiful valley and went into camp. That nig-ht it rained hard 



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and the boys had great difficulty in keeping- dry, as we had no tents. 
By 10 o'clock we reached Stevenson, Ala., where is a junction, one 
leading- to Nashville, and the other in a westerly direction through 
Huntsville to Decatur. We boarded the cars and went to Bellfoate, 
which is about three miles from the railroad and about five miles 
from the Tennessee River. Bellfonte is a beautiful little town, 
but nearly deserted on account of the war. The companies were 
quartered in the vacant buildings. The right wing of the reg-i- 
ment remained here under command of Col. Given, and the left 
wing went on to Dodsonville under command of Lieut. Col. Elliott. 
A detachmdnt of Co. F was sent to the river to do patrol duty. A 
detachment of Co. I was sent to McGwynn's ferry and patroled 
the river to Seven Mile creek. A patrol of four men was sent down 
and back every afternoon, ahd one at night did the same 

Many exciting incidents occurred here. One day some rebels 
across the river fired upon us, but few of their guns would carry 
across, but our Springfields would with deadly effect. Godfrey 
Omweg secreted himself behind a tree near the bank and watched 
his chance for a shot. Shortly he saw an object and fired at it and 
saw a man fall, and some of his comrades jumped down the bank 
and helped him up. We called their guns "popguns," but when a 
Mississippi rifle was fired across. Bob Clark, the colored cook, made 
a break for the bank ane declared "that was no popgun.'' One 
evening a man across the river called for us to send a boat over, as 
he was a rebel deserter, and wanted to come across. We could 
not be caught in an ambush. But the man said he was all alone. 
We told him to build a raft, which he did, and when we found he 
was in earnest, we sent a boat over and took him and brought him 
over. 

This part of Northern Alabama is well supplied with fruit — 
blackberries, peaches apples, etc. The climate was delightful, 
and the nights were cool, a cool breeze coming from the Sand Moun- 
tains across the Tennessee River. 

About the ISth of August a part of the command at Bellfonte 
was ordered to Stevenson to relieve the 100 day men whose time 
had expired. We marched the whole distance and went into camp 
and did -duty guarding commissary stores and provost duty. 
About the first of September we were ordered on board the cars 
and were sent to Huntsville, Ala., where we joined the left wing, 
and went on to Decatur, Ala., and was turned off on the road to 
Athens and Pnlaski, where we were put after Wheeler's command 
who was on a raid into Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee 



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and there stopped to g-atlierup a deck of cards^ which had been 
left scattered on the bunk, and then out through to the entrance 
to the g'ate, and to the boat landing-, but the gravel hurt my feet so 
I stopped to put on my shoes, when my brother John Schmutz 
called from the boat to hurry up, so I got up and ran on the boat, 
and was about the last one on when the line was stopped and no 
more allowed to get on. We were sent down the Alabama River 
to the mouth of the Tombigbee, which is about fifty miles from 
Motile, Ala. Thence up the Tombigbee to Gainsville, where I 
tirst discovered that I had the mumps. From Gainsville we were 
sent across the country a short distance to the main line and on 
to Meridian, Miss., and from there to Jackson, Miss. 

The night before starting to Vicksburg it rained, and as my 
shoes were about worn out, I deemed it advisable to remain at 
Jackson, so reported at the rebel hospital. 



l\vo Rebel Deserters Shot. 



I was detailed to go out to help bury a Union prisoner, and 
when I got to the com mons I found a lot of rebel soldiers and two 
of their own prisoners, who proved to be two deserters who had been 
condemned to be shot. It appeared that they werei father and son. 
The son made a great ado, but the father was not seemingly effect- 
ed. They were placed on coffins, blindfolded and a squad brought 
up in front and at the command "fire" the men fell back dead. 
This affected me more than anything I had ever witnessed. 

In the hospital was Robert C. Londis, of Co. H, who was very 
sick. I did all I could for him, tried to get him some nourishing 
food and some extra care. I never saw him after I left. 

A small company of prisoners was made up and sent through 
and marched about 28 miles to Black River near Vicksburg, Miss. 
The prettiest sight I ever saw was "Old Glory", as she floated in 
the breeze. We reached the paroll camp on the 25(h of March, and 
w;i the 22d of April were exchanged. On breaking camp, which 
had been built up of cane reeds cut from the cane brake near. 
These were fired and caused great commotion, the green cane 
exploding and sounded like musketry firing 

On the 24th we were placed on board the ill-fated steamer 



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SuUana. At Helena, Ark., we stopped and saw the streets covered 
with water — people could only pass through the streets oy boat. 
All rushed to the side and the ofi&cers plead with the men to g-et 
back, fearing- the boat would capsize, it was so heavily loaded. 

On reachinff Memphis on the afternoon of the 26th a larg-e 
quantity of freight was discharged. This took so much ballast 
out of the hold and made it more liable to capsize. About 10 oclock 
the boat moved up the river and stopped at a coaling station to 
take on coal. It was thought by some that a torpedo was placed 
in the coal -and was taken on, but the actual cause has never been 
known. 

About 2o^clock on the morning of the 27th the boiler exploded 
when about nine miles above Mempris. Many were throvvn into 
the river, some were badly scalded by escaping steam. I will let 
others give their personal exerience, only give my own. 

I was sound asleep and don't know that I heard any sound of 
the explosion. I was lying with my head to the stairs leading to 
the hurricane deck on the left side of the boat, and was thrown 
into the water, I first felt a burning and falling sensation and cry- 
ing out "what's the matter?" and by that time I was in the river. 
I was a good swimmer and soon found some rubbish of the boat, 
one being a piece of cracker box. I could not imagine what had 
thrown me into the river, but I soon saw flames and then I 
knew that the boat had exploded. Up to this time I had been try- 
ing to reach the boat. I now turned down the river with the cur- 
rent, knowing my chance of recovery was better down the river 
than trying to swim asbore, which I think I could have done, but I 
knew the river was over its banks, so concluded to go down the 
river and take my chance of being picked up at Memphis. 

I was scalded about the face and frequently dipped my face 
in the water to allay the pain. I remained quiet for some time 
and finally I heard a noise and I cried out for help. "There's one," 
said a voice, and I saw a boat. I grasped an oar that was lifted 
for me, and was assisted into the boat. Then I first realized that 
I was badly scalded on the body. I had only a shirt on and this I 
pulled off, my burns hurt so badly. After the boat picked up sev- 
eral others I was taken ashore, and then to a convalescent camp 
where I suffered great pain from my scalds. I was urged to o-q 
and lie down, but the cool breez felt better than lying on a coi.. I 
finally went in and put on underclothes and lay down nearly ex- 
hausted. Soon I was taken to the Gayoso Hospital, where I re- 
mained for ten days, they at first dispairing of my life. A Christian 



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CommisBton man came around and wrote home to my mother tell 
ing- of my safety, but made an embarrassing blunder by Haying- that 
ray bands were badly scalded so that I could not write. Aftersome 
delay I g^ot some clothes, having lost all by the disaster; and then 
with »ome others I was furnisheditransportation to Cairo. An Ohio 
Society man gave us some money and at Cairo we were given sonrie 
meal tickets good at Mattoon, III., and here I had the first chance 
to sit at a table for a good meal. I tell you it was good. We then 
went on through Indianapolis, Ind., and then to Columbus, O., and 
on May 30, 1865 was mustered out of Uncle Sam's service by order 
of War Department. I was furnished transportatioa via Gallion, 
to West Salem, O., where I was at home again. 

At Jackson, Misa., I had caught the itch, and on arrival home 
my hands were somewhat broken out. On arrival home I met » 
lady who noticed the condition of my hands and remarked that "mv 
hands were not yet well of the scalds." "No'' I said' "not quite 
well.'' I hope she received no bad effect from the act of shaking 
■band. 



CORESPONDENCE 



Letter From Col. Given's Regiment. 

Louisville, Kv., September 26, 1862. 

Mtssrs. Hardy & Oberly; — Gents: Enclosed I hand you a li?»t 
®f th€ names of our coaspanj, as requested of Capt. Robison be- 
fore we left Wooster. If you think it would interest your readers 
at this late date, jou can publish it. We could not furnish you 
with a correct pne before this. 

Dr. WTeai^er has just called to see us. Lieut. Hardy visiten 
our canap yesterday. He looks remarkably well. Major Wiley is 
sick and left at Nashville. Buell'sarmy has marched 35 days on 
quarter rations and without tents. Phey left all their baggagf Ht 
Howling Green and it is reported that it is all burned, to prevmt 



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it falling" into the han<l of the rebels. We expect to move to-mor- 
row. Your<*, &c. 
i,{ ,. , , B. Beerbower. 



.1 :fLettei; From, .Col. Given's Regiment. 

, ,,,. , I^oxnsviLLE.,KY., September 30, 1862. 

, Many, of, jpur, reader^, no doubt, will be glad to hear.from the 
l(}2d Reg-iment, as it represents man}' families of Wayne county. 
We have been in active service since the 4th inst., at which time 
we left Catpp Mansfield. F>om there we came to Ciacinnati, bv 
the way of Crestline and Columbus. We arrived at Cincinnati on 
the mornintr of the 5th inst. We then disembarked and marched 
through the city near the Coving-ton Ferry, where we halted until 
we received orders to march further. After halting about an hour 
we. received'orders to go to Covington. We marched to the river 
cfjossed the ferry, into Covipgton. We then marched through the 
city until we arrived at the Magnolia Hotel. We were then halted 
and divided into several squads and quartred in several vacant halls 
ia the city. We then received orders to have the muster and pay 
rolls in readiness, so that we could be mustered into the United 
States service and paid oft. Each one of our men received forty 
dollars, which vvas quite a nice sum for tha men to send home to 
their families and friends. We remained in the city until Sunday 
evening- at five o'clock, at which time we received orders to march. 
Our men were ready in a very few minutes to march wherever 
their brave Colonol and officers would lead them . We then marched 
to or near Camp Mitchell. We were then assigned to the 3d Brig- 
ade and 5th Division commanded by Gen. Stanhope. That night 
we camped on the side of a hill, and remained over night without 
tents and not a mouthful to eat, but our men did not complain a 
word. 

In the morning, being Monday, the ever generous boys of th« 
1st Regiment Cincinnati Reserves, gave us bread and meat for 
breakfast. At nine we received orders to move again. We v» ere in 
readiness in a very few minutes for another movement. We w^re 
then marched to Camp Mitchell, being one-half mile from camp. 
We were there about one hour and were thinking that we would 
ijave a very fine time in our new camp, when the drums beat the 



1S2 

long' foil. 'W^faich was tTie sig'flal for baftielfne. We h^d oaf bi'sve 
boy« form into battle line in a very short time, and were expecting" 
to be attacked by Gen. Heath and bis infernal band of rebels. Our 
men were anxious for a brush, but were disappointed. After 
waitiflg: for about one hour, our Reg^rraent, with four others, were 
marched about three miles, and our Regiment being: marched 
through a cornfield and up a high hill began to form into battle 
line when we noticed a regiment oti a hill opposite us forming in 
line also. They also had their cannon placed in order to rake u* 
They were ordered to load with sheil, but they only loaded witb 
blank cartridges, and intended to fire towards us, but upon close 
eiaminatjon with their glasses they discovered that we were Fed- 
erals. Their regirtient was the 89th Ohio; they thought we were 
rebels and intended to fire Jnto us as we formed on the opposite 
hill. If they had fired shell or grape into us they might have done 
considerable damage. We did not heatt anything bat our "very 
tine Austrian muskets" — some of Fremont's damaged or refused 
guna that he bought for the United States. But few of them will 
explode a cap without being snapped a half do?en times. We did 
not remain on the hill. We changed our position by marching in- 
to an orchard and meadow, owned by a Colonel now in the rebel 
army. Our men did not have anything to eat that day, only what 
they received from the Cincinnati boys. We then remained on 
our arms all night, expecting to be attacked. Knowing that the 
rebels were near, we formed in battle line on Tuesday morning at 
three o^'clock and remained so for twelve hours* On Tuesday at 
twelve o'clock our Quartermaster arrived with his teams and 
something to eat for our boys, it being nearly forty*eight hours 
that w« were without anything to eat and very little water to drink, 
as it was very scarce. We remained in our place until Wednes" 
day at ten o'clock, when the long roll was beat again, and we then 
changed our position about three hundred yards to our right. 
We remained in that position until Friday evening. On Thurs" 
day night, our company (Capt. Stout's) was sent out on picket du- 
ty. It was a very pleasant night to be in a boasie or under sbelter, 
but not quite so pleasant to be out of doors. It rained hard all 
night. During the night v^e heard picket firing on our right. It 
was near Camp Mitchell, the same place we occupied on Monday 
after we left Covington, where we wefe first called into battle line. 
On Friday the 104th Ohio Regiment had considerable kirmishing" 
at the same place. They had oae killed and three wo'inded. Du--. 
itig that night the rebels had t»vo thousand cavalry v.ithin one and 



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a baH milesof our Kegitoent. They intended to attack iis> but 
Were disappointed in not receiving reinforcements. They had a 
battery of artillery within two miles of us, which if they had flredv 
might have made sad havoc among us,» as our Regiment was ex- 
posed to them. We were surrounded on all sides by hills, which 
were nearly covered with batteries, and we had in the vicinity of 
about five miles about sixty thousand Union troops^ 

All business in Cincinnati and Covington Was suspended^ and 
all men were ordered into the service to the cities. Those that 
Would not go as soldiers were pressed into the service to dig tren^ 
ches and build fortifications. 

On b^riday evening we changed our position again^ and moved 
about five hundred yards to our rights near the Lickinsr River 
At that place we recieved the clothing for the boys^ which improved 
their appearance very much. It made them look and feel like real 
Vive soldiers. We remained at that place until Sunday, when we 
again received marching orders. We crossed the Licking Rivef 
and marched about one and a halt miles up a high hill that com" 
mands the Lexington road leading to Covington. We then halted 
and formed in battle line. That night we were reinforced by five 
large guns from the 9th Ohio Battery; also by the Ulth O. V. L 
and the 8th Ind. on our right. At this point the niggersi^ or the 
Colored brigade, as they were called, had to dig rifle pits and 
build a fort for two sixty-four poundf.rs. On Thursday night We 
were aroused about eleven o^clock by our pickets firing. We were 
soon into line and were placed along the hill we occupied, and ex* 
pected every moment to be attacked, as we knew the rebels were 
near. We remained along the hill until morning, at which time we 
again returned to our former position. We then ascertained the 
cause of the firing. One of our companies of cavalry pickets were 
attacked by two hundred rebel cavalry, and our men were cut up 
and had to flee in every direction. Fourteen of our cavaly cameto 
our pickets and did not wpnt to stop when so ordered by our men. 
They feared that our men were rebeU. They broke through the 
Indiana pickets and came toone comoany of our men. and were 
stopped and brought to headqu irters; but they did not stop until 
our m.en fired on them. Ooe of the cavalry was slightly wounded* 
That ended the fiKht." 



■^'This who'i'e commotion r.-as cnvisad jv;st ns 1 stated Wi '•CoiTir?.n5- I's Frst 
Kiffht on Picket," which was a carriag-e with a horse leadin.fr behind comin£^ 
up the pij<e. Tho&e ''brave" cavali yiiK'i. n.ujsi. have tecii acdeci out of their 
boots. 



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We remained at what was called Camp Wallace until Saturday 
nig-ht. While at this camp we heard of the "S-iulrrel Hunters" 
from all parts of Ohio. We heard that two hundred v\er.:^ in Cin- 
cinnati from Old Wavne County. We were expeciing" to see them 
in camp; but afterward were told that they were afraid to come 
over the river for fear they mio^ht have an opport unity of doing thirty 
days' duty lor their country. Patriotic men of Old Wayne,' we 
will ever remember you, the "Squirrel Hunters;" for th^ gfeif 
services you rendered your country. We were not afraid 'tdfcome 
for three years, and g^o through all'tlie hardsitflps 'that a' feoldie'r la 
subject to. ' ' /.'••-* 

On Saturday evening we received orders to marcti. ' We then' 
marched to Coving'ton and embarked on board the steamer Izttta. 
and remained on board at anchor until Su'nd'ay morning-, at which 
time we ascertained that the st&amer cdul'd not go down the river, 
as the water was too low. We theii transferred' our men to the 
steamers Arizona and Rose Hamilton. The' lirsit five companie,s 
our company, (Capt. Stouts,) being" No. 2, -among* them, oh board 
the Arizona. We then steamed up and moved d()wn the rivfer, our 
boat taking the lead, with Col. Given, Maj. Topping- and Adj. Mc- 
Monigal with us. After going down the river abont twenty miles 
we ran ag-round on a sand bar; after working about half an hour 
we manag-ed to get otT, when we moved down again, and beg-an to 
think we would g-o through without any more delays. We had gone 
about two miles when we ran aground again, 'and had to remain un- 
til Monday morning before we could get off. The old boat did not 
look as if it would get through with the contract she had made. 
After hard work we succeded in getting her loose. We came on 
down the river slowly; W'hen near Madison, Ind., on Monday night 
the water wheel broke. We had to remain at that place uatil the 
wheel could be repaired, which was on Tuesday at 1 o'clock. We 
then came to this place at ten o'clock that night. We remained on 
board until Wednesday morning. The first man that came on 
board to welcome us was Lieut. Col Baker, as fine a man as lived. 
We then disembarked and mai heed through the city to where the 
other five compainies of our Regiment were. We then marched to 
the east end of the city, near Broadway on a commons. After re- 
maining there three horus we received marching orders again and 
in a very few minutes we were marching. We marched half a 
mile south-east of our first place, We then pitched ourselves— 
not tents — on the ground and remianed there until Friday evenino-. 
While there we received our tents. The boys were feeling quite 



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meri'v to have an r-pportunitv to sleep under shelter, it beinp- the 
first time since they left Camp Mansfield. On Friday we ajrain 
receiv^ed, pi^irclpi'?^ orders and in a few minutes we were marching-. 
We marched one mile north-east and pitched our tents on a small 
stream in the <ttv,-^\ end of the city called Bear Grass Creek. The 
land we are on is owned by a secesh Colonel in the rebel army at 
this time. After the boys had pitched their tent**, thev wanted 
floors in them. This field was enclosed by a board fence when we 
first entered it. bvit in half an hour alter that time I could not see 
a board, 'i'he p<»sts v\'ere left. By the way, they were of red ce- 
dar and intended lu last a long- time, but I ('are say that they did 
not last any Ioniser than breakfast time. The boys wanted wood. 
It being^ scarce, they concluded that cedar posts would mak a good 
cooking^ fire. Thv:y pitcheol in ami remarked that cedar post» 
were as good as anv kind of fuel. 

When we came to this place we were in the 3d Brigade and 4th 
Division, which ^^i(s commanded by Col. Taylor, of the 50th Ohio. 
Our forces her<^ under Gen. Nelson is said t<^ be 80,000 meu. On 
Friday afternoon <^<*x\. Duel arrived with his Division, which num- 
bered 45,000 men. 1 hey look as it they had seen service. They 
have been traveling- foity-five days. When they came here they 
had nothing- but vshat they had on their backs, and that was noth- 
ing- but rags. TLnMr tents were burned in Alabama, and their 
bajfg-age captu.'ed by the secesh. The 41st is also here. The 
Wooster compauy that was commanded by Capt. Wiley number 
.^5 able men, fit for duty. They were paid otf to-day and received 
n«w clothing. 'I'b« boys have seen service and are anxious for a 
tijfht. If Gen. l>u#l had been right thev would have had a figfht 
with Gens. Brkj^g aad Smith, but Buel is a little too slow and is 
strong-ly suspected of being; a little secesh. 

Wc had quitf an exciting- time here yesterday, which w .s 
caused by thedefcth of Gen. Nelson, who \s as shut by (ren. Jeff. C. 
Uavis, of Ind. NVliIle I am writing" the tunnral procession is p.tss- 
ing near our cari)p. This is a \ery nice place, but wc soldiers do 
nut get an opporlunily of visiting the cit\, unless ue have a pass 
which IS not g-j wii t-d. The city is under iii;iriiai Jaw and anyone 
who is ft->und ot; \\\- street without a jiass, isarrested and imprisoned 
until he is rcle^t-^- •] by th..- Cohuu 1 of the rtyinienl he is from. 

Tht health oi our bv»ys is \er\ gi>u(i,.ind the. .ir. m the \try 
best of spirits, ^U'?. '.vouUl utit be aiiwliii g else but soldierT-. ^^ e 
will soon bemyrehii'g after 'he lebeis in siii«- ^lau w-- •^;iv !■ ;. \\..y 
that the work \\\\\ not lu i^ d u> (;>. e.une ii\er .ig-.;,!! V. u ^\ « ;■> L;..t''i 



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to hear the Junior Editor of your paper is in favor of the Union. 
He has the best wishes from the 102d Regiment tor his and her 
future. With this I must close. Yours respectaully, 

"JACKADE." 



Letter From the io2d Regiment. 



The 102d Seeing Service — Long Marches — Incidents on the 

Road — Devastation of War — Battle Grounds— The Aid 

Societies— Effect of Lincoln's Proclamation. 

Bowling Green, Ky., November 2, 1862, 
Since I last wrote you we have done some marching. We re- 
ceived orders on the 7th ultimo at Louisville, and by 1 o'clock p. m. 
that day (Sunday) were ready to march. Before leaving we were 
assigned to the 38th Brigade and 12th Division. Our Brigade was 
composed of the 129th 111. I. V., 111th O. V. I., 23d Mich, V. I. and 
the 102d O. V. I., our Regiment, under command of Col. Chapin, 
of the 23d Mich, acting Brig, Gen., and our Division commanded 
by Gen. Dumont. 

At 1 o'clock we commenced our march for Shelbyville, which 
was 31 miles distant, traveling until 7 o'clock that evening, then 
halted and gave the men a rest and time to get supper. The march 
was resumed at 1 o'clock in the morning and continued until 11 
o'clock a. m.. when a halt was ordered for camping one mile north- 
west of Shelbyville. While coming that distance we noticed a 
number of places where Gen. Bragg had camped. We occupied 
the same ground for camp that the rebels had done. Our march 
was considered a good one for new or old troops. 

We remained in Shelbyville until Wednesday, the 10th, at 
which time we received orders to march to Frankfort, and in a 
very short time were on the road. The weather was very warm 
and every thing seemed to be dried up; water was scarce, and aur 
boys with their heavy knapsacks considered it dry soldiering. 
We marched until 10 o'clock that night, when we halted to rest. 



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Upon countino-the men in the 102d Regiment we could not make 
the number over one hundred men — the balance had stragg-led by 
the wayside and were not able to keep up. There was but 12 men 
in our company (Capt. Stout's) when we halted, and that number 
was as many as any ctmipany in the Reg-iment. When we stopped 
to rest the Caplain laid himself on the rails to sleep that nig-ht, all 
so tirtd that they were glad to get an opportunity to lie on the 
ground. We remained in camp (in a cornfield) until 10 o'clock 
that nig-bt, when a messenger arrived from our advance, a brigade 
of cavalry that there was fighting at Frankfort, and that we were 
wanted immediately. By that time 400 of our men had come up 
with US, making about 500 of our men for the 102d. Inhere were 
six miles to travel to get to Frankfort, and we made that distance 
by three o'clock Thursday morning. After halting and making a 
rough count, I think our Regiment, then present, numbered about 
200 men, and the other regiments averaged about the same. We 
remained in the suburbs of the city about two hours, while the 
General and Stafl: made an examination of the place. We saw, and 
haltrd on the spot ^here the rebel Scott, with his cavalry attacked 
our cavalry; they made three dashes at our advance; but Vv'ere re- 
pulsed each time and finally driven out of the place. The casual- 
ities were as follows : The Confederates had eight men killed and 
16 wounded; our loss was seven wounded. Our men followed them 
a considerable distance, succeeding in capturing a few of them. 
We crossed the Kentucky River into the main part of the cit}', and 
remained there about two hours, lotig enough to get something ?o 
eat, something scarce, as the rebels had been there about five 
weeks and cleaned the place of everything in the way of provisions 
and would not allow their inen to pay anything but their script 
trash. Gen. Bragg issued an order making it a military offense to 
refuse Confederate money in trade. The}"^ took all the goods in the 
wa}' of jeans, cloths and cassimeres that could be used for uni- 
forms and clothing. The rebels left a guard of 1,500 cavalry to 
hold the place and burn the bridge over the Kentucky River, 
but Gen. Sill with his division, made the mskedaddle. Shelled them 
on Sunday the 7th, and killed sixteen of their men and wounded 
quite a number. Gen. Sill then received orders to march to Law- 
renceburg, and consequently withdraw all Federal troops fr.im the 
place. As soon as he left Bragg sent his cavalry to occupy the 
city, which was held by them until we drove them out. 

We remained there until Saturday morning, the 12th, when we 
received marching orders again, and were soon on the way to Law 



us 

fenceburg-, 20 miles distance, faachin'g' oiu' ciefetinafioti after dafH' 
the same day. About an hour before our arrival the cavalry and 
Artillery of the advance had a skirmish with the rebels in the south 
end of the town. On Sunday, a force of infantry, artillery and cav- 
airy v/eiU eight miles east of the place to reconnoiter. They re- 
turned in the afternoon ^ith sixty secesh prisoners, ("butternuts' 
as the boys called them), a hard looking- set, dirty and rag-ged. 
You have seen them represented to life in the Kew York illusera- 
ted papers. Among- them Vv'asa Major, a Captain and a Lieuten-' 
ant. The Major had been captured tvice before, and each time 
had taken the oath. I do not know what his fate will be^ 

On Monday, the ISth, tve received orders to march to a place 
called Sulvisa, 14 miles from Lawrenceburg-, where we arrived at 
4 o'clock p* m that day^ camping- over night. "Madam Rumor'' 
here reported that Gen. Buel had a fight with the rebels, captur- 
ing 30,000 men, and gave Bragg 30 hours to surrender his whole 
army! The nest morning, Tuesday, at 3 o^clock we started for 
Danville, 22 miles distant, and marched as far as Harrodsburg by 
12 o'clock, m.j halting long enough to make a cup of coiBFee and eat 
sotne crachers, or "hardtack" the boys called them, While there 
I had the pleasure of making the acquaintance of Hon. John B. 
Thompson, of this state, whose speeches you will well remember 
while in the U. S. Senate. Among a few others he invited me tc 
have dinner with him. Mr. Thompson is truly a Union mania 
i^'ord and deed, and the Confederates have taken nearly everything 
from him. He has a broter in the rebel army, whom he hoped, he 
said, would be dealt with according to his deserts as a rebel. 

After leaving Harrodsburg we warched to Danville and 
campel over night, and then started for Crab Orchard, but did 
not get there that day, stopping at a place called Sanford. Thurs- 
day morning at 3 o'clock we started for Crab Orchard, and by 10 
o'clock were in camp, where Buel's whole or greater part of the 
army vvas. We noticed a number of placed where there bad been 
skirmishking: the fences were down, and we could see where the 
artillery had been destructive. We remained in Crab Orchard 
until Monday^morning, vvben we received orders to about face and 
go back. On the 22d we came to Perryville, where th^ great fight 
commenced between Gen. McCook and Gen, Bragg. We halted 
about one hour in town seeing 1,200 wounded men. Every house 
and store-room in the place was used as a hospital. The sight was 
a sorrowful one; men with their arms and legs off, and I saw one 
poor fellow who had both arms and one leg off. He said he thought 



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lie would soon be able to "shuffle cards" with his other one. Here 
I met a Wooster boy, John Ublm; be had a flesh wound in his thigh, 
but was able to walk: The fight at that place was one of the blood- 
iest one of the war. We camped near the town that night, aod 
while there it was reported that an armistice had been agreed upon 
between President Lincoln and Jeff. Davis, that all hostilities should 
cease for 60 days. There was much rejoicing at the news, and 
all wished it might be true, and that this war would soon close. 
Since then we found that it was one of Madam Rumor,s falsehoods. 
From Louisville to Perry ville the country is very fine; farro- 
ers all have large farms and well improved, and very fine houses 
and plenty of darkies, or "Smoked Yankees," as they are often 
called. That reminds me of the late proclamation of the Presi- 
dent. I do not think it has had its desired effect; instead of injur- 
ing the reoels, it is driving out many heretofcre good Union raen. 
Too many persons have the idea that the niggers would all leave 
their masters if they had an opportunity. They are very much, 
very much mistaken in this. Those that do run away are "ener- 
ally worthless and laz}', which I knovv^ to be true from persondl 
observation. 

Leaving Perryville, we started for Lebanon, the terminus or 
the Louisville and Lebanon railroad, and had gone but four or five 
miles when we changed our route and followed the little stream 
known as the Rolling Fork, a branch of the Green River. After 
traveling two days we again changed the route and marched for 
Mumfordsville. On the morning of the 25th it commenced rain- 
ing; by 12 o'clock it turned lo freezing and by night it was snowing- 
We camped in a woods near by a one-horse town called Salem. 
Tbe snowing continued all night; and as we had no tents, in the 
rr.orning the men, as they lay sleeping in the woods looked like 
logs covered with snow\ It was a hard night for us. 

In the evening of the 27th we encamped within one mile of Mum- 
forusville. The country from Perryville to that piace is not ^vorth 
fighing for. On the morning of the 28th we had entered the 
Bowling Green pike, halting on the road at the east end of Mum- 
fordsville, where four battles had been fought, and where 4,000 of 
our men held their ground against 35,000 rebels and held th' for-- 
tifications until the rebels received reinforcements to about .'0 - 
000, when the Federals had to surrender, after two days' ho.rd 
fighting against such great odds. The trees near the battle ground 
si.ow marks of bullets and cannon balls. At that place the rebels 
burnt the railroad bridge over the Green River, which prevented 



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the crossing o1 cSfs fof &CirCie tfrlie. Aftef leaving Muffiforcfst^ilfe 
tve were four days coming' to this place, Bowlin<jf Green; the road^ 
were g-ood, the weather pleasant^ and has been ever since we lelt 
Camp Mansfield, Ohkn with tbe exception of a few days. Ther 
nitrhta are Very cold and frosty, and it makes the boys feel like 
having tents, and tbei' think of home and the many comforts they 
left to heeolne soldiers. If we had a Quartermaster, one not made 
of wood,- we raig-ht have our tents as well as other regiments. The 
country from Mumiordsvilleto this place is very fine, and from ap' 
pearance the people live well, all being- wealthy, and baVe every- 
thing- to make them comfortable. Our Brigade was the first in' 
tbis l^lade of tbe Array of Kentucky, bnt sinde the Divisions of 
Gens, ii^ill, McCook, Thomas and Roaseaa have come in and the 
ti'atns afe filing in now. 

Thus we haVe traveled tbe distance of 325 miles from the 7tb 
to tbe 29th, and let you be the judge if that is good marching. 

How long we remain here I cannot tell. I think we will be 
paid off before we march, but we in the army cannot tell one hour" 
tvhere we will be the next. The supposition is that we v/ill go te 
Nashville from befe. I have been told this morning that several 
Divisions have orders to go to Nashville. I hope that ours will 
soon reinforce Gen. Negleyj all communications and supplies are 
cut off from him and unless be soon recaives assistance I fear hi* 
command will be captured. 

Our friends at home have no idea what destruction there isio 
a country where large armies pass through, as they have in this 
Statte. Cornfields are stripped, hay taken and fed, cattle, hogs 
and chickens all taken and killed; fences all burnt. The people of 
Wayiie county do not realize what war is. Many families where 
armies have passed along will be in a starving condition unless 
they receive assistance. If several large armies were to pass 
through Ohio the people would feel the war, and then be glad tc 
have it come to a close. 

The health of the Regiment has been very good until the last 
week, quite a number are now on the sick list, and many of the 
boys will be down. Those who are sick have not the necessary 
food they should have. I will here make one suggestion to our 
Wooater Aid Society, and that is: when they contribute to the sol-- 
diers, they should have it sent to the Wayne County Soldiers. The 
citizens of Wooster and Wayne county I believe have donated as 
much for the aid of the soldiers as any county in the State, but I 
aa:i soi ry to say that the brave Wayne county boys have received 



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b\3l vefy fevv thtfig-s "ujp lo t'h'is tVffie* 

We feel lost in the way of news, having' seen bul tew papers since 
\ve left Louisville; and have received but three mails in one month. 
We are told that there i«5 a lot of mail matter at Frankfort, also at 
Louisville, which will be Jforwarded to us soon. I have not seen 
a Wooster paper in camp since the 9th. 

I will have to close this letter as we will have company drill in 
a few minutes. 

I am sorry to say that Col. Given is and has been unwell as 
far as to be unable to attend to his duties. We hope he will soon 
be with us again* With best wishes from the 102d Regiment, I 
veraajn, Yours respectfully, 

«'JACKADE.»* 



Letter From CoL Given^s Regiment* 

From the ttolnies Coiintj^ P^rmeri 

Bowling Gren, KV., Novetnber 11, 1862. 

Friend Estill'— Amidst throng and confusion I undertake to 
write you a few lines. We are situated near the little village of 
Bowling- Green; on a high rolling piece of ground. None of the 
102d have tents except the field officers. We have made dwellings 
out of rails and cornstalks, which is poor shelter from the storm. 

The health of our company (G) is not good — 26 of our men be^ 
ing on the sick list. Twelve are on detached service, v/hich leaves 
but few men for drilL 

H. Smith, who has fallen with disease, Was recently bufied. 
By his death we have lost an honorable man, a brave soldier and a 
good cook. He was always at his post and discharged his duty 
cheerfully. When first reported to the Surgeon be said he never 
Would get well, but would like to live to see the war ended, and see 
his family once more. In 48 hours from that time he died. 

We have been constantly on the mafch. Man)?^ of the boys 
have given out. Some were left at Louisville^ some at Frankfort) 
some at Danville, some at Lebanon and others at Mumfordsvllle. 
We have a number of sick now in the hospital here. 



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If report can be relied upon, we marched 310 miles m 2^ days 
carrying- from 50 to 60 pounca each. This is trying- on the mns^- 
cles. Yours truly, 

WiixiAM McClure. 



Letter From Lieutenant Ames of the ic2d« 



From the Ashland Tirues. 



Bowling Green, Ky., November 17, 1S62. 

Dear Times: — Having a little leisure tO'day, I thought I wouK! 
write you a few lines, and at the sarae time totry rogive you sonie 
items in regard to our situation and what we are doing-. 

Company ^, Capt. McNaul's, are camped near the railroad 
depot in this place, and are guarding commissary stores. We 
are now very comfortably situated; have good Sibley tents and the 
boys have them fixed up in good style. Nearly all of them have 
furnaces, and they warm the tents nicely. By the by, I tried my' 
hand on % furnace in our tent, and though it is not the best one I 
ever saw, still, I think it an improvement upon thosein the church- 
es in Ashland, 

From present indications I think we will remain here this win- 
ter, and our Regim.ent detailed to do guard duly. In passing you 
have heard ere this that Major Topping is appointed Provost 
Marshall of this i^lace; a very good selection, I think, as he is in- 
dependent and prompt, two traits that it needs to make a good 
Provost. 

I am very sorry to inform you of the death of Andrew Broud- 
fit, Jr., 2d Sergeant in Capt. Sloan's company. Mr. Proudfit was 
a very worthy young man, and stood as well in his company as any 
one in it. Fie was always willing and prompt to do his duty as a 
good soldier. He has sacrificed his lite for the cause of his coun- 
try, and, although he paid the last debt of nature, away from dear 
friends at home, still he had plenty of friends around him during- 
bis sickness, that were willing and r .\'A did do all for him 

that could be done. He is gone; wemo::ra Lt is early decease as a sol- 
dier, and we who have known him from his childhood, are sad to lose 
one who had so many manly virtues. His friends may deem the 



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•Sifoke of Divine Providence to be liafd, but tliey must look to Him 
that doeth all things well. He died in a holy and just cause, and 
I hope v/e will all be permitted to meet him in a better world above. 
I received a package of the Times a day or so ago, and waa 
Very glad to receive them. Please continue the favor. 

H, Amess 



From the io2d Regiment. 

Just as we Were going to press we received aj letter from ^'aii 
Ashland Soldier" in Co. B, 102d Regiment. Thedate of the letter la 
the 28th of December. The regiment was then near Clarksville, 
Tenn. Major Topping was still at Bowling Green, Ky. The 
health of the Regiment is better. We will publish the letter next 
Week. 



Letters from the 102d Regiment received too late for this is- 
•sue^ contain no news of importance. The Regiment is still doing 
guard duty, and the health of the members is not very good, but 
like all new regiments it must become acclimated. About fifty 
have been discharged since it left Camp Mansfield. Capt. John Mc- 
Naul of this place has resigned, and is now at home. This will 
^ake room for Sergeant Roberts, whose promotion we trust we 
ishall be sble to announce ere long. 



Letter From the io2d Regiments 

Headquarters 102d Reg'r. O. V. I. | 

Camp Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 12, 1862. ) 

Benj. Cohn, Esq., — Dear Sir — We have been at this place since 

the 28th day of October. Our Regiment suffered alarmingly, on 

the severe marches we made, and since here from the effects of 

the measles. Our sick list is improving some at this time, bnt it 



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is still larg-e, being- sotile fbree tmnfTred, present and absent. Ur, 
Mitchell tells me this evening- there is a decided improvement itfi 
the last two or three days, and that we have no cases in the hos- 
pital at this time that are dangerous. Still not over fifty per cent, 
of the sick will ever be tit for service ag-ain. Measle cases are 
among' the worst to unfit men for the army, as in nine cases out 
of ten they leave grown persons with weak lungs, which is bard to 
get rid of, and continue in the army. Orderly Anderson was at 
one time looked upon as dangerously sick. He with a good many 
others were sent to Louisville about a week ago, where he is get- 
ting along welL Capt. Huston received a letter from him this 
evening. Young Reed, son of John Reed, in the west end of our 
county, died since at Louisville. Hts was a case of fever. 

We got our tents day before yesterday. These are the first 
we have had, that we could call our own. About three weeks after we 
got here vve had issued to us a lot of wedge tents for the time be- 
ing, until we could be suppled with a better article. We have now 
the Bell Tents, which are large and comfortable, and our boys 
have gone to work and raised four to five layers of brick, put fire- 
places and chimneys in each, and banked up earth outside against 
the brick under the tents, which makes them as comfortable as a 
house. Brick are plenty here, all they cost is the hauling, and 
this the teams of the Regiment do when wanted. When Buckner 
was here about a year ago, and was shelled out by Gen. Mitchell, 
before going he fired the town, and before the Union forces could 
subdue the fire, a good many buildings were burnt to the ground; 
this accounts for the quantity and cheapness of the bricks. 

This place is a prominent point on the Louisville & Nashville 
R. R. and crosses the Big Baron River here on an extension bridge, 
so that we are in no way secure from an attack at this point, and 
we have to be on the watch all the time lest we should be surprised 
by a dash to burn the bridge in order to cut off supplies from our 
southern army, as this road is the only source by which it must 
be supplied at this time. Our Regiment has a picket line of about 
three miles to take care of, which requires 100 men daily. We 
have the 114th Ohio, 26th Ky., 23d Mich and 102d Regiments 
here, besides cavalry and artillery and last night we got over 1,000 
uien, among which are the drafted men from Holmes, Wayne, 
Richland and Ashland, and other counties, and I understand 
there is a Brigade of cavalry on the way that will be here to-night. 
So we feel ourselves secure in any emergency. Of the toils and 
privations a soldier has to endure, I have nothing to say at this 



'time, as t'be sick list ox all fne ^eg-rvneEit w'bo were at Covinn-tf.n 
and Louisville durinof the exciting- times in those two cities, an! 
then made the hard marches through Kentucky after Brag^g's 
forces, will be answered by the sorrowing- wives, and children for 
hunband and father, and fathers and mothers for sons. Durinir 
the passing up and do-w.'n of our army through this place, ther.' 
has been left some five hundred sick from the difierent Divisionos 
For myself I have nothing to complain of, thus far, I havt 
stood it remarkably well, having had good health all the time, wi: " 
the exception of a few days while on the march between Louisvi!'.'. 
to Frankfort. I was threatened with billious fever; but after that 
passed off, I became perfectly stout and hearty. Give my i: - 
spects to all inquiring friends. Yours respectfully, 

Absolom Bakes. 
P. S. After having this letter closed up and ready for <\.^ 
mail, I got word from the Hospital, at 11 o'clock, it being that tin • 
of night, that Charles Ling had just died. Poor Charles! Or.' 
would have thought that if any man from our county would star.i 
the service, that he would. He was all along the whole mar., ;} 
hale and hearty and as good a soldier as there was in the Regimer. ; 
Always behaved himself with propriety, and ready for duty wht ; 
-called upon. Some days after arriving here, he, among the rest 
took the measles, and about the time he was about over them, hv. 
exerted himself in the Hospital waiting on others, took cold, whit '. 
settled on his lungs, and now he is no more. For the last five da' . 
they thought he was getting along comfortably, and would-recovt i , 
but this only proved the uncertainty of life and the certainty c.i 
d'sath, 

A. B. 



Letter From the i0 2d Regiment. 

From the Hohnes Countjr Farmer, 

Headquarters 102d Reg'r. O. V. L 1 

Russell viLLE, Ky., Dec. 31, 1862. ) 
Mr. J. A. Estill, Dear Sir: — Permit me to drop you a fewlints 
which, if considered worthy, may find a place in the Farmer. 



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After an unsuccessful marcli of 280 miles in parsuit of Old 
Bragg", we found ourselves at Bowling Green, Ky., on the 30th of 
October, where we devoted about three weeks in drilling, standing' 
picket, and sleeping on the ground without tents» At this point 
Capt. Huston^ by a sudden and successful dash on the Quarier- 
mapter, succeeded in procuring teats, to the joy and approval of 
all the Ix^ys of the Regiment, and we were ordered to remove our 
encampment to the west side of town with a promise of making it 
our winter quarters. About the time the boys had their tents- 
comfortably fixed, by putting chimneys in them, &c,, we were 
sgain ordered to change our location to accommodate Gen. Gran- 
ger. Again we fixed up with the positive assurance that it should 
be our winter quarters, and again eve were doomed to disappoint- 
ment by being ordered by railroad to this place, 30 miles south- 
west of Bowling GreeUy on the Lfouisville & Memphis railroad^ 
with the promise that we would return in a few days. We left 
the Quartermaster with bis department the teams and our sick 
and convalescent at Bowling Green. Our deaths amount to about 
4 per cent., which added to the sick takes about 400 from our 
Regiment. Upon our arrival at Russellville, we pitched our tents, 
and in a day or two our teams came along and we g^ave up all idea 
of returning to Bowling Green, When five days here, Col. Given 
joined us, he having been home a few weeks to recruit feis health* 
The Colonel brought with him 900 Springfield Rifles. Should we 
meet the enemy the boys of Co. A will make good use of them, and 
acquit themselves to the credit of Holmes county. 

Our company, which numbers 70 effective men, which is 10 
per cent, more than any other company in the Regiment, was 
called to furnish a detail af 50 men and two commissioned officers 
to go sis miles below Russellville to guard a bridge, which had 
been burned some weeks before by the rebels and was being re- 
built. The duty was assigned to Lieut. Castor, myself and SO of 
our men and 20 carpenters, Among our number was John Hanna, 
of Miilersburg, Thomas Hayes, of Benton, snd Dixon Johns, ot 
Berlin. At the end of three days, and after completing the bridge. 
Col. Bruce, our acting Brigadier General, came along and informed 
us that our Regiment had gone to Clarksville, Tenn., 28 miles be- 
low here, on the railroad, and on the Cumberland River, and or- 
dered Lieut. Castor and 35 of our men to proceed on foot and join the 
Regiment, and myself and the other 15 men to guard the bridge. 
J. H. Orr, J. H. A. Roberts, Wm. Cole Laughead,and some of the 
Nashville boys, all of whom are reliable. 



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Below bere weThave two bridges to build, one over Red River 
•and the other the Cumberland, near Clarksville, which will be 
■completed in a few days. 

With this imperfect sketch of the doings of the 102d Regiment, 
1 will close by saying that I have just received a dispatch from 
Headquarters ordering us to join the Regiment at Clarksville, 
'Tenn, Respectfully yours, 

Lieut. John Eberhardt, 



Pliny M. Hoagland, son of Willis Hoagknd, Esxj., of Capt. 
Harpster^'s company, 102d Regiment, died in the Hospital at Lou- 
isville, Ky., on Saturday last, (Dec. 27. 18(.2), aged nearly 20 years.. 
His remains arrived here Monday evening in charge of his father. 
— Holmes County Farmer. 



From the io2d Regiment, 

Clarksville, Tenn., December 28, 1862. 
Mr. Editor — Dear Sir: — This beautiful Sabbath morning, af- 
ter a refreshing rain, Glorious Old Sol shines fort'j in his accus- 
tomed splendor and power. The church bells of Clarksville ring 
merrily, feathered songsters from their favorite boughs are piping 
forth praises to Him who rules on high, and all appearances indi- 
cate a peaceful, merry spring morning, such as we may have in 
the month of May in Ohio. But such is not the case; instead of 
peace, quiet and happiness in the great State of Ohio, we are m 
the benighted regions of rebeldom, surrounded by the stern reali- 
ties of war attended by all its accustomed miseries and devasta- 
tions. This morning, though the holy Sabbath, suffices only tc 
remind us for a moment, of the gentler scenes transact( d on 
that day in Ohio, and then, on again goes the bustle of canip, 
the firing of guns, inspection of arms, preparations for gatheriuj^ 
forage, etc. In this busy scene, are engaged those noble sonsol 
Ohio, who, for the time, ignored the pleasant associations of home 
and friends, and linked their fortunes with that of the 102d, cast- 



Tig- 

ing theW mite into tiiat great assembTage of FecTerarpower, wKicb? 
is closing- slowly, but most certainly in, like the walls of the magic 
])rison, upon the increasing proportions of this doomed rebellion.. 
But out of that large regiment oi Ohio's sturdy sons who left 
Camp Mansfield, perhaps 400 of them well and hearty, are with 
r.s to-day. Long marches with heavy knapsacks and the ravages 
of diseases have thinned our ranks and supplied the hospitals, and, 
though coTTiparatively few, the soldier's grave. 

For the convenience of those who have extensive maps, we 
will name a few of the principal towns passed through by the 102d 
since about the 5th of October last, showing our wandering course. 
On the Sth of October, having in charge a large train of baggage 
wagons, the 102d left LeuisviUe. At Shelbyville, turning over the 
train to the proper authorities, the regiment marched on, after 36 
hours rest, to Frankfort^ thence to Lav^renceburg, Danville, Stam- 
ford and Crab Orchard. At the last named place we halted and 
gave up the pursuit of the rebel Gen. Bragg, virtually acknowl- 
edging his superior skedaddling propensities. Here we rested 
our weary bones for three days, and then began a change of our 
"base of operations," passing back through Stamford, Danville,,. 
Perryville, Lebanon, Mumfordsville and Bowling Green. 

You doubtless heard of the splendid cornstalk city in which 
we lived for several weeks. This was in consequence of not hav- 
ing tents, and perhaps will account for a good portion of ill health 
in the regiment. Finally we received tents and built fire-places 
to them, expecting to remain here for some time. Having re- 
mained a few weeks at this place, we had gathered many things- 
for our convenience together, and having received several boxes of 
good things from our faithful friends at home, we were beginning 
to live quite comfortably, and were making some proficiency in 
drill, having brigade drill under Brig. Gen. Granger, and battallion 
drill under our regimental ofiicers. But on the 15th of December, 
amidst a driving storm of wind and rain, we wereordered to strike 
tents, and leaving our comfortable chimnies, waded half a mile 
through the mud to the depot, and by 11 a. m. were "pleasantly'' 
crowded aboard common stock cars, wet and muddy, there t& 
shiver with the cold until 4 p. m., when the train started for Rus- 
sellville, distant about 30 miles, and arrived by 8 p. m. at our des- 
tination. Some of the boys bivouaced for the night outside the 
cars, while others madet hemselves as comfortable as circumstance 
would permit in the mudd}^ cars, rather than to sleep on the cold, 
damp ground without shelter. Next morning we camped about 



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ome mile from town, Toaving- left all wIdo were unable to travel of 
<our regiment at Bowling Green. In a few days, those who could 
move, came up with the regiment, Vv'hile the residue of the sick 
went into the hospitals. Here, again, brick being near at hand, 
we built cbimnies to our tents. At this place. Col. Given rejoined 
his regiment, and, unfortunately, met with a slight accident. We 
had received our new arms, the Springfield rifle, which, by the 
way, are fine weapons tor execution; and as the Colonel was test*- 
ing th^ir ability to "snap caps,'' a fragment of the cap entered one 
eye and caused a considerable irritation; but we believe the wound 
is improving and will soon be well again. On the mornins" of the 
24th we were again ordered to strike tents, and prepare for 
a march of 35 miles to Clarksville, Tenn. By 10 a. m. tents were 
rolled up, knapsacks were strapped on our backs and we were un- 
der motion. 

Our brigade consisted of three regiments of infantry, 700 caV* 
airy, one battery artillery and a long train of baggage wagons. 
This day Lieut. Col. Baker took the leadership of the 102d, while 
Col. Given commanded the brigade; Col. Bruce, of Ky., Post Com* 
mander at Russellville, not coming up with us until the first night 
of our march. 

Nest morning Col. Bruce took command, and instead of hav^ 
ing a "gay and festive time'' on Christmas, as we long had prom- 
ised ourselves, we had a heavy march of about 22 miles before us. 
By 7 a. m. the brigade was in motion; four impressed teams with 
black drivers hauled the knapsacks to-day of the 102d. This was 
Holiday with the slaves, therefore dressed in their best attire, 
they thronged almost every door-yard and by-road, leading to the 
pike, gazing at us in wonder and delight, laughing in the happiest 
glee, and exposing to view a double row of ivory from ear to ear. 
Just before leaving the Kentucky border, we saw a curiosity in 
the shape of $11,100 worth of human flesh, which was gazing at 
us as we passed by. There being 37 of the "chattels" of all sizes 
and shades of color in one door-yard, and by making an average 
of $300 per "chattel" we arrived at the amount above stated. 

At about 12:30 p. m. on Christmas day we crossed the Tenn- 
essee line, for the first time entering de facto the confines of the 
bedeviled state of the so-called Confederacy. Kentucky claims 
to be one of the Federal States, and consequently claims protec- 
tion under the constitution and laws of our government, nothwith- 
stanning the notorious fact that there is precious little loyalty in 
Kentucky. Though Kentucky is one ot the Federal States devas- 



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tation has defaced fier fair homes to a. fearful exfenf. Ruf thc 
visitation is justly due her for her hesitancy to take a decided) 
stand firmly on the side ot loyalty and fidelity, la consequence 
of her delay, the two armies simultaneously entered her borders, 
the so-called Confederate power bopin^^ to precipitate the state 
into rebellion, which the Federal power hoped to retain her prim- 
itive faith and loyalty. Hence, upon her "'sacred soil" the armies- 
met, and the surg^ing waves of rebellion in success and reverse 
have rolled back and forth across ber once lovely domains, until it 
seems almost that the demon of destruction had dethroned the 
Goddess v)f peace and plenty, spreading^ wide desolation in her 
path. Tennessee deprecated Kentucky's course; for, had Ken- 
tucky taken a decided and firm stand for the Union, East Tenne- 
ssee, at least would not to-day be isolated from the loyal Norths, 
and surrounded by the unwholesome tide of treason and disloyal- 
ty; and thousands of conscripts, who are to-day in arms ag^ainst 
their chosen Government would have been firm and hearty sup- 
porters of the Union. But I am digressing-. 

On Christmas eve by sun-down we arrived on the banks of 
Red River, a branch of the Cumberland, within one mile of town. 
The bridge being destroyed, the infantry crossed on foot logs, 
while the teams forded the best they could, which took them til3 
late at night. About 2 p. m. oar cavalry entered the town on the 
double quick, finding nothing to dispute their taking possession. 
Our regiment, after waiting until about 9 p. m., after crossing the 
ford, found a camping ground and bivouaced for the night. 

We are now stationed in the out skirts of the city; brick are 
being hauled, and everything indicates a protracted sojourn at 
this post We are about 300 yards oorth of the Seminary in which 
Col. Mason, who was dismissed from the service for cowardice, 
ordered his men to stack arms before they received the summons 
to surrender. We have a copy of the '"Rising Sun," a paper which 
began its publication in March, 1862, while our troops had posess- 
sion ot the town. 

All the good things received from the good folks of Ohio are 
thankfully received as they arrive, and "taste for more." 

For fear of intruding, I close, hoping this unholy rebellion 
will soon cease to be. 

Yours rery respectfully, 

J. F. Hughes. 



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Letter From the 1026. Regiment. 



Headquarters Co. K, 10 2d Reg't. [ 
Clarksville, Tenn,, February 10, 1863. | 

Mr. Editor: — If I recollect right, I promised you before I left 
Ashland that I would write you occasionally, but for various reas- 
ons I have failed to make my promise good. I have leisure this 
■evening-, and through the medium of your excellent paper, will in* 
form our Ashland county friends of our whereabouts. By the 
heading you will see that v.'e are in Tennessee, on the Cumberland 
River, some thirty miles above Fort Donalson and sixty from 
Nashville, 

The town of Clarksviile is not beautiful by any means, but is 
the home of rich tobacco lords, who are as disloyal as Jeff. Da^ 
vis could wish to have them to be» There are a great many ele*- 
g-ant buildings — private residences — to be seen in and around the 
place, but not much public spirit displayed. We like the place 
because it is healthy. The few men left in town, are chafing un- 
der our rule and only await the advent of a rebel force to join in 
the extermination of the hated Yankees. The fort we are expect- 
ed to occupy commands the town, and our rebel citizens may coa-- 
elude that it is wise to keep away from the fray to save the town. 
The most of the soldiers think the rebels are treated with too 
much consideration, and I join in the same feelings, but we can 
only do as our leaders allow. There is plenty of tobacco here that 
could be obtained without much difficulty, but the Post Comman- 
der, for reasons best known to himself, refuses to appropriate it. 
The soldiers are enthusiastic in their efforts to crush out the re- 
bellion, and could they have their way, the rebels would soon con- 
clude that we were in earnest. A majority of our boys are anx- 
ious to try their prowess in the art of war. I hear of no complaint 
amongf the soldiers except an occasional growl from some home- 
sick fellow, who enlisted through fear of the draft, or for the 
bounty offered, and knows no more about patriotism than a child 
before it arrives at the years of accountability. There are but 
few boys in this regiment who will not be found on hand when the 
emergency arrives. 

The officers of company B are well and doing well. Company 
K is not so highly favored, but still have little cause for complaint. 
We feel enthusiastic in the cause we are voluntarily engaged in, 
and have no doubt we will be successful if we are ;>roperly sup- 
ported. Politics should be laid aside for the present, as we have 



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work enough oa hand's tiow^ and if 1 maj be allowed tj predict, I 
would say: we must be united if we would be successful. Co. B 
boys are doing- finely — most of them enjoying^ good health. James- 
Wells, of Ashland, has been quite sick for several days, but is im- 
proving rapidly, Capt. Folwell seems to have the confidence of 
his men and is ably assisted in his duties by his Lieutenants Ames- 
and Roberts. Lieut. Roberts bears his prosperities meekly and 
fills the post he has been raised to with as much ability as any line 
officer in the regiment. 

Company K from the northern part of the county has suffered 
more from the ravages than our neighbor company B, but are in 
good spirits and tolerable health at this time. We have a few men. 
in the hospital at Bowling Green, some in Russellvile, and a limited 
number under medical treatment here. The boys from Orange 
are doing finely, except Sam Youngblood, Thomas Donly and Ja- 
cob Ely; nothing serious ailing any. Everything that can be done 
for the comfort of our men in being done, and lam happy to say 
the health of the men is improving. 

Allow me to publiclv acknowledge my indebtedness to Lieut. 
W. A. Beer for the able manner in which he has assisted me, and 
for the undivided attention he has ever given to nis duties. All 
through the long and laborious march Lieut, Beer was ever in his 
place, always tr^ncouragicg the men and occasionally relieving some 
of them by carrying their burdens. I am frank to admit the 
march was a little too much for me, but I got through by occasion- 
ally stealing a short ride. 

We lost no men on the march, but planteel the seeds of diso- 
lution in many a noble breast, and very shortly after arriving in 
Bowling Green, Ky., the destroyer commenced his work. We 
have lost six men, but we hope we will not be called on to record 
another death soon. The boys are getting used to camp life, and 
I think their health will improve. Lieut. Potter returned about 
the first of this month, after an absence of over two and a half 
months occasioned by sickness. You may yet hear something 
good of us. We are not fighting now, but forwarding supplies to the 
army at Murfreesboro. We are afraid some of our friends are 
not doing all in their power to assist us, and will feel discouraged 
il our worst enemy turns up in our rear. We hope for the best. 

I cannot refrain from writing a few lines in reply to the letter 
published in the Union(?) from D. W. Kagey, Orderlv Sergeant of 
Co. K, 102d Reg't., O. V. I. I was never more surprised in my 
life than when I saw that letter, for he expresses opinions there 1 



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TieveT'knew him 'co entertalti, and what is worse, he makes state- 
'ments that are almost, if not entirely false, and what he must 
know to be untrue. He says some very ungenerous things, be- 
'sides setting- himself up as a judge capable of deciding upon thehon- 
■esty and loyalty of ''Cesser lights," such as Lincoln, Seward and 
Sumner. The '^footprints of despair" he tells about, can only b« 
seen through disloyal eyes, It is barely possible he discerns them. 
I think it rather unkind in him to say our three months' men "re- 
turned to their everlasting sharae," and it is my opinion that most 
of them areas loyal as the author of tbe sentence I have just quot- 
ed, and have less reason to feel ashamed. Judging their loyalty 
by their actions, and D. W.'s by his letter, I say give me the for- 
mer. 

I have just read a letter from Capt. O. Smith in which he speaks 
in unbounded praise of our soldiers, and thinks they will fight to 
a man for a cause they have so generously engaged in. The Cap- 
tain is doubtless as capable to judge of the feelings of the soldiers 
as D. W., and I assure you the tone of his letter has the ring of 
another metal. One of the boys of our company received a long- 
letter from a friend who is on the staff of Gen. Rosencrans, writ- 
ten since the great battle of Murfreesboro, and he is enthusiastic 
in his praise of our soldiers, and their determination to fight to 
the bitter end. He seems to have overlooked the bitter dissatis- 
faction in our army that D, W. knows to exist. I have conversed 
with soldiers and officers from different parts of the army, and I 
must say that if there is as much dissatisfaction as U. W. tells 
about, I can't see it. One place he says "the soldiers have been 
decieved once too often," and insinuates they are ripe for revolt, 
which is as utterly false as anything can be. It is malignant. If 
he meant what the language implies, he knew when he wrote it, he 
was writing what he himself could not believe. The most of this 
effusion of his will be news to the soldiers, even if it fails to be in. 
teresting. 

Col. Given does his duty, and takes as much interest in the 
wellfare of his men as anyone can. We have plenty to eat, drink 
and wear, and I can't see how we could have better fare in the 
tented field. I will dismiss the subject by saying that the opin- 
ions herein expressed concerning the soldiers are concurred in by 
the other officers from our company. Capt. John M. Sloam. 

In the same issue of the Times is a letter from Lieut. John T. 
Roberts, Co. B, who echoes the views of Capt. Sloan, and asserts 



that the whole reg-iraent repudiates trie letter of D. W. We tBinfe 
that Orderly Kag-ey made a ja;Teat mistake in stirring up a hornet's- 
nest and got most of the stings for his pains. Poor Kagey died 
at Tullahoma, and we would let the '*dead past be forgotten."' 
None of the 102d can say but that D. W. was a good soldier, but 
misguided in a political sense. Historian. 



Major Topping and Gso. A. Kellogg left for the 102d Regi- 
ment yesterday (March 4, 1863,). The Regiment is still at Clarks- 
"vi'lle. Tenn. 



Ashland Times, April 23, 1863. — Lieut. Ames returned last 
Friday from Co. B 102d, bringing with bim a large amount of 
money, some $18,000, for the families in this and adjoining counties.. 
The Lieutenant says he never felt better, and that the boya are 
in the best of spirits and are united against copperhead&. 



From the io2d Regiment. 

Clarksville, Tenn., May 23, 1863, 
Dear Sir: — An apology is due you for my neglect in writing, 
I deem it of interest to you to give you a short sketch of our pres- 
ent locality, country, and condition of our troops. 

We are now encamped at "Ft. Bruce,'' one mile from Clarks- 
ville. During the past two months the health of our Regimen' 
has gTeatly improved. We have comparatively few sick. The 
well-conducted hospital we have, in charge of A. V. Patterson, af- 
fords quite a comfortable home for the sick soldiers. The soft, 
fair hands of women continue each day to soothe the fevered brow, 
and their gentler voice seems to shorten the wearysome hours of 
the sick bed, 

Capt. Folwell is assigned to the command of two "24 pound- 
ers," which are mounted in the fort, and has a detachment from 
his company (B) to "man them." The boys are proud of the job, 
and feel the necessity of being well drilled in their responsible posi- 
tions, and the Captain is notv drilling them in good earnest. With 



t"he advantage of the fort, and this "lieavy artillery," we have whole 
cdtnmaBd of the surrounding- country. We see no display flag-s 
but vvhat we make ourselves. To the citizens of this place, ours 
aire too sacred for them to touch, and they seem to be ashamed of 
their own, while they *'look daggers''' at o«r well clot'jM and well 
diciplined troops. 

Our army is in good con^iition, and in moot excellent spirits. 
VVe know nothing of the "demoralization of our troops," spoken 
of so much in such g-lowing terms by the"peace men"of the North. 
It is t; ue we have seen some hardships, but nothing more than we 
anticipated when we volunteered, as many of us knew the hard- 
earned wages of the soldier, but we sacrificed home and friends 
to save the country and the flag that has protected us from t'h.-. 
cradle. .1 speak for the I02d, from a knowledge of its condition. 
No Colonel in the service commands more respect from 'iiis mea 
than does Col. Given. He has an intelligent regiment, and witii 
him as our leader, the 102d stands as a unit in the cause. It is 
ready and Vv'illing at any time to take up its line of march, battlin"- 
for right, though its pathway be beset with toi^s, perils and dag- 
gers. 

I am a 'Memocrat," and still proud o£ that once honored name 
but it grieves me to hear "traitors" c-alling themselves "demo- 
crats," and croaking for "peace," as. long as there is an armed fo.,? 
stalking for their country. There can be no "peace," we want ni< 
"peace"' until the Government at Washington be acknowledged bv 
all to be legitimate, and the states now in "rebellion," are repre- 
sented, and our onr honored flag again floats over everv nook ami 
corner of the so-called "Southern Confeaeracy." 

We are stationed here for the present, having no assurance 
of remaining during the war, and have no knowledge ot our 
next destination. I have the duty to perform that has been as- 
signed me since our organization, viz.: taking charge of the ma;! 
for the regiment. We get mail regular now, once a day. It al- 
ways gives me much pleasure to bring a large mail to camp. 
Yours truly, James W. Wells. 



Resigned. 

April -, 1863.— Captain Harpster has resigned his commar.l 
in the 102tl Regiment, and returned home. He is warmly re- 
ceived by his numerous friends. 



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Letter From tfie 1026. Regiment. 

Clare:svill-e^ Tenn., Aug^ust 19, 186J. 

EBlTcift Rjii'UJiLiOAN— Dear Sir: — In reEding-^^our paper of late 
I can see nothing from the 102d Regiment. We are getting along" 
finely— in the same old place — have a great deal of duty to do; the 
boys are on every other day. Vfe expect it easier in a short time, aS' 
the Regiment is to be filled up with recruits; hope we will get a few 
from old Wayne. Thisisjast the best place in the world to make 
good Union men out of copperheads, and we will! insure a cure; al! 
they will hjii^e to do will be to keep their eyes peeled and notice 
til" e way things are carried on to be convinced of the justice of 
pus-iivng mattery to the bitter end of liberating the pceple from 
their worse than slavery, and of punishing the leaders of thi& 
wicked reJiellion ap\they deserve. There is scarcely a family in 
the city of CiarksviUd but mourns the loss of a father, son or broth- 
er. Some have lost all — a sacrifice to ambition. 

The 14tb Tewnessee^ a regiment 950 strong, raised at this- 
place, two and and half yeats ago, is now entirely wiped out. At 
the battle of Gettysburg- the regiment went into the fight with 60 
men, all told, and in a despjsrate charge, where Federal cannon and 
volleys of musketry swept tLre pl^in^ the once 950 were felled to- 
the ground dead, dying and wounded, left in the hands of the ene- 
my. We learned that in this chargCN^nly three men out of the 60 
escaped, all the rest were killed or wounded. 

Desertions are frequent, they come into our lines daily, and 
oh ! what a sight they are ! No wonder they are sick of the war^ 
Ragged and dirty, some without hat or shoes, and their lank forms 
tell too plainly bow they lived. They own 'tis no use fighting any 
longer, their cause is hopeless. 

The health of the Regiment is very good, but few are sick, and 
this is called the worst time of the year for sickness* Few deaths- 
occur, but in that fev/ was numbered our dear friend Will Bardon. 
We burried him yesterday, after a short illnesis, during which 
time he suffered much, but died easy. Every possible care was 
taken of him. Friends were with him all the time, administering to 
his wants and cheering him up, but to no purpose, the mighty hand 
of death has torn him from us, laid waste and desola'-e the hearts 
and home he left scarce one year ago, so full of hope, so patient 
and uncomplaining. He was a favorite with all. None knew him 
but to love him. We deeply sympathize with his family in their 



bereFiVement. They have lost "a good and dutiful son, a kind and 
affectionate brother. 

The weather is excessively warm here now, 'tis the warmest 
of the year, but "we all" stand it first-rate, it does not affect 
us any more now than those who have lived here all their lives. 
We of Ohio are of a much sturdier build, more fully developed; 
and capable of enduring- more hardships than those of the 
south. Very few of them do any work at all. They lay in the 
shade and let "Cuffey"' doit for them. Those not able to live 
without work are counted as nothing-. They are the "poor white 
trash." That kind of business is about played out. The slaves 
have found out they can get much better living and do not have to 
"work so hard on the fortifications. They have a good many employ- 
ed on the works around Clarksville. They have built a tort (Fort 
Bruce) under the direction of Lieut. Beach, of the 1st Tennessee 
Battery, that will stand as a monument of the "war for the Union'* 
for ages to come. It is a splendid fort, equal in streng^th and a 
much better situation than Fort Donalson. 

We are having our fill of fruit just now. Peaches are Very 
plenty, and apples too. This is a great country for all kinds of f ruit» 
I almost forgot to tell you that our Regiment boasts of a brass 
band, and a good one too, for the time they have had to practice. 
The instruments were purchased by contributions from the men* 
1 must say that a more liberal regiment cannot be found in the 
service than the 102d. The folks at home can be proud of it^ and 
rest assured it will do its duty in action if ever called upon. It 
calls forth praise from every one that has seen it, for the manly 
bearing and soldierly attainments of its members. 

J. C. B., Co. F, 102o Reg't. O. V. L 



Letter From the io2d Regiments 

Cowan Station, Tenn., Sept 27, 1863. 
Editor Republican — Dear Sir: — You have doubtless heard 
ere this of our departure from Clarksville. We left there on the 
21st for Nashvile, at which place we arrived on the 24th. The 
march was easy compared with what we have had, but the boys 
not being used to it for some time it went pretty rough with some 
of them. Sore feet were quite plenty. 



We made quite a disp'Tay pussTdrg" tfrroirgii N'asbvirie, with otrr 
eolo-rs floating in the breeze, the brass band in the distance making: 
the streets reeebo with sweet and soul stirring- airs. The manly 
bearing of the men and the orderly manner of their marchings 
elicited praise from all. 

After camping a few hoars oatside the city,, we received 
marching- orders, it was ramored to Stevenson, Ala. Brig. Gen. 
Granger and staff, accompanied by Gen. Dumoet, came up to see 
and bid us good bye= Our bully little General was well pleased 
with us. He said be was sorry to part with us so soon, as we 
were a model regiment, and be had hoped to have us with him, but 
at this time it v/as impassible. After he had done speaking the 
band struck up "the Star Spangled Banner," preceded by three 
rousing cheers. Orders were then given to "fall in," and away 
we v/ent to the depot arriving at which we were soon *'all aboard,"" 
and after some delay got off. 

The regiment being very large it was divided into two battal- 
lions, each having a train of its own. Nothing happened to our bat- 
tallion on the trip, but not so with the 2d battallion, Lieut. Rid- 
dle, of Co. E, in some way slipped from the cars, was run over and 
killed. He was a good and brave officer, liked by all. His loss is 
felt by more than his own company. 

We passed large trains loaded with the wounded of the late 
battle. They were mostly from Gen. Thomas's corps and had 
stood the brunt ot the battle. They say our boys fought until 
their guns were so not they could not load them, and would thea 
throw them down and pick up others. They took rebel prison- 
ers only four hours off the cars from Richmond. The rebels of 
Longstreet's and Hill's corps fought like devils. As they charged 
on our men they would yell, ''Here's your Eastern soldiers, you 
are not fighting Bragg 's men now." Our men replied, "You are 
not fighting the army of the Potomac now either," and so they 
learned from sad experience. 

On our arrival at Tullahoma orders were received to divide 
the regiment and station one battallion at Elk River and the 
other atCowan Station, fifteen miles below Tullahoma, a very im- 
portant point on the line of communication between Nashville and 
Chattanooga. It is the last watering station along the route, and 
a considerable quantity of provisions are stored here for the use 
of the army. 

We are camped almost at the foot of the Cumberland Mount- 
ains, in the poorest, most God-forsaken looking country I ever saw 



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We can get nothing- 'bere Vot orar rations o! fiardtack and sowbelly. 
The country is devoid of everything, neither fruit nor vegetables 
of any kind can be had, except what little can be got from Nash- 
ville. The people are in a starving condition ; they have until late* 
Hy been drawing rations from the Government, 

Col. Given now commands our Brigade and has his headquar- 
ters at this place. Lieut. Col. Bowman has command of the 1st 
battalion, Major Elliott the 2d, stationed at Elk Riven The 
Ihealth of the regiment remains good, how long it will be so I am 
finable to say, as our present style of living is not calculated to 
promote health, 

J. C. B., Co. F, 



A Card of Thanks. 

The citizens of Smithville presented a beautiful sword to 
Lieut. E. A. Palmur, of Co. H, 102d O. V. I., for which Lieut. 
Palmer returns thanks in a letter dated Aug. 7, 1863, at Clarks- 
ville, Tenn. 



Letter From the io2d Regiments 

Headquarters Co. H, 102d O. V. I. 
Nashville, Tenn., December 26, 1863. 

The box you sent us so richly laden with the good things 
from home, has met the warmest reception. I cannot refrain from 
expressing profound gratitude fof the kindness you have so gen- 
erously manifested toward me and my worthy comrades in arms. 
How it did tickle our gustatory propensities when those rich lux- 
uries were spread out before us. Canned peaches, applebutter, 
pound cakes, sausage, dried apples, tobacco and cheese, were on- 
ly a part of the contents; and among these came the sheet anchor 
of the vegetable world — sauer kraut! Oh, glorious sauer kraut! 
the nutricious flavor which it affords is enough to make glad any 
soldier, enliven the depressed and excite a smiling countenance 
on every Dutchman. It reminded us of the days of peace, when 



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was a stranger and plenty smiled throughout the land. Tbe box 
came here on the 24th inst,, in time to afford us a Merry Christ- 
mas. Be assured that we enjoyed it almost beyond measure, and 
while we were thus indulging-, we remembered with grateful 
hearts the donDrs of this happv feast. Accept our thanks for 
this mark of kindness, and believe me that such manifestations 
from friends at home, inspires us with renewed energy to stand as 
a wall between them and our country's foes. 
Very respectfully your friend, 

Sergeant Strecy. 



From the i0 2d Regiment. 

The following from a well-posthd soldier in the 102d Ohio, 
will be read with much interest by the people of Wayne county. 
We think that the prompt action of the Government in Lieut. Col. 
Bowman's case is commendable, and the dose should be repeated 
as often as a similar offense accurs; and, at the same time, we do 
not doubt what our corresponent savs in regard to the good stand- 
ing as a gentlemen and soldier: 

Nashville, Tenn., March 19, 1864. 

Editor Wooster Republican — Dear Sir: — Doubtless a few 
lines from the 102 Ohio at this time will not be unacceptable, as 
you are aware the Regiment is now doing Post duty at the city of 
NashAille, having been here since the first of November last. The 
Regiment is in fine condition, the boys buoyant with hope and con- 
fident of the ultimate and speedy overthrow of the rebellion. The 
sturdy old soldier, Col. Given, is in command. Major Elliott is de- 
tached to command of State Penitentiary, and Capt. Rowcas Asst. 
Insp. Gen. of Brigade, and therefore on Staff of Gen. R. S. Granger. 
The other Wayne county officers are with their commands, de- 
voting their attention to the manifold duties upon them devolving, 
as becomes officers and gentlemen, which they are. 

But the object of this letter is to speak with reference to the 
summary dismissal of Lieut. Col. George H. Bowman. The inci- 
dent which terminated so fatally to our Lieutenant Colonel oc- 



curred at a Christmas dinner g-iven by Gen. Ward at his head- 
•quarters. There assembled were most of the commanding officers 
of the Post, and among them one Lieut. Col. Morgan, of a colored 
•regiment. Morgan, who, having been a Lieutenant and A. A. A. 
■Gen. to Col. Bruce at Clarksvillc, had formed some slight acquirt- 
tance \Aith Col. Bownan, presented himself, extending his hand 
lo Col. Bowman, who turned and walked away, and afterwards in 
compan}'^ with those whom he supposed his friends, made some 
remarks not altogether friendly to negro service, which were 
overheard by a renegade, thrice convicted jail bird, now in the 
Penitentiary here, wlio hastened away to tell Col. Morgan, who, 
was his jTirivilege, complained to the proper authority. Knowl- 
edge of the affair having come to the President with the evidence 
•before him he has deemed it proper and expedient to dismiss the 
Lieutenant Colonel, but in doing so he has deprived the service of 
as fine a gentleman, as firm and steadfast a supporter of the Gov- 
ernment, and as brave, etiergetic and loyal soldier as sports the 
livery of Uncle Sam. While in command of the regiment he de- 
voted time and energies exclusively to the proper training, edu- 
cation and dicipline o: the same wholly engaged upon making it 
efficient whether on duty or on the battle field. With those of his 
command he was stern though kind, affable and generous, ever 
ready to hearken to counsel, when consistent with his duties, from 
the humblest private in the ranks. 

As a testimony to the extent to which he has endeared him- 
self to the command we beg leave to introduce the following upon 
which the vote was unanimous: 

Resolved, First-, by the non-commissioned officers and sol- 
dier of the 102d Regiment O. V. I., that we have learned with sor- 
row the dismissal from the service of the United States of our es- 
teemed Lieut. Col. George H. Bowman; and without murmuring 
of what has been done, we unite in declaring our unlimited confi- 
dence in his courage and excellent qualities as an officer and gen- 
tleman, and would gladly hail his restoration to us again. 

Resolved, Second, that a copy of these resolutions be deliv- 
ered by the Chairman to Lieut. Col. George H. Bowman. 

Finally their ebullient feelings culminated, as if it were 
a thing inevitable, in an assembly before the Lieutenaut Colonel's 
tent, on the eve of his departure. 

The accomplished brass band of the Regiment, under the 
leadership of Mr. Richards, executed some fine pieces of soul- 
stirring music, known favorites of the Colonel's, when he appeared 



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in the midst of the assembly, and was hoisted high upon the shoul- 
ders of the sturdy members of Co, '"C," (which the Colonel raised, 
as the best means of expressing their intense feelings of sympathy, 
while their stentorian voices told of their appreciation. 

The Colonel then delivered an address, short, neat and ap- 
propriate, concluding with saying that he wished to shake each 
member of the Regiment by the hand, thereupon the men crowd- 
ed around him, and as with each hand he grasped their own, big 
tears of regret and sorrotv rolled down many a manly cheek, such 
as we have not witnessed for nineteen months, when husband took 
leave of beloved wife and child, brother of dear sister and son of 
sainted mother. 

Hoping that all things may work together to the triumphant 
^vindication of the National cause, I remain, 

Very respectfully^ Hughes. 



Death of a Soldier, 



At the United States General Hospital on the 23d of April. 
1864, of small pox, Frederick Rockenfelder, ot Co. K, 102d O. V. 
I., Capt. Sloan's company. — Ashland Times. 



Death of a Soldier, 

We were pained to hear of the death of John Battler, private 
in Co. K, 102d Regiment, Capt. Sloan's company, at Clarksville.. 
Tenn. Mr. Sattler was regarded as-one of the best soldiers in 
the regiment, always at his post of duty. — Ashland Times, 



From the io2d Regiment. 

The following are the Union naajorities in companies B and 
Kof the 102d Regiment: 

Brough, Gov.. 46; Carey, Reps. 62; Ingmund, Judge, 58; Par- 
mely, 50; Vermily, 55; Gass, Senator, 53; Barber, Clerk, 60; Bugh- 
nell, Treas., 47; Grabell, 59. 



1G3 

Mr. Levi McCaulej' will leave for Nashville, Tenn., witli sani- 
tary stores, clothing-, &c., for the boys of the 102d Regiment, O. 
V. I. and others in that vicinity. He will start on the 15th day of 
December. Let the friends of the boys in the field g-et ready their 
supplies, and bring- them to the-store of J. A. & T. Miller, Ashland, 
where they will be packed. Let their be a good donation made 
to the 102d. We believe there has been no g-eneral donation ever 
been made to the boys in the regiment. Give them one worthy of 
Ashland county. 



A Card Frim the io2d Regiment. 

Camp 102d Reg't. O. V. I. 

Nashville, Tenm., December 24, 1864. 

Mr. Editor: — "We, the soldiers of the 102d Regiment, O. V. L 
wish to express through the columns of your paper, our heartfelt 
thanks to the kin<1 people of Ashland county, for the good things 
sent to us under the care of Mr. McCauley. Everything throug-h 
safe and in good condition. We were much pleased with the do- 
nation and the friends at home can rest assured that we will long- 
remember them for their kindness, and to-morrow we will once 
more enjoy a good old fashioned Christmas dinner. 

We are in good health and well fixed for the winter. 

Ashland County Boys 102d Regiment. 



Christmas Feast for the i0 2d Regiment. 

I purpose shipping a box to the 102d Regiment on Monday 
December 15th. Persons desiring sending articles to their friends, 
such as fruits, butter, etc., can leave them at the jewelry store of 
W. S. Rowe & Bro., south-east corner of Public Square. 



Death of a Soldier. 

We find in in the Ohio State Journal of the 20th of April, 1864, 
that Andrew Gordon of Co. K. 102d Regiment, died at the U. S. 
Hospital at Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Gordon was a member of Capt. 



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Sloan ''s cam{>aoy, wblcb went from' this cou-nty in' the fall of I86Z 
His parents reside in Orange or Jackson Townsnip. — Ashland 
Times. 



Letter From the io2d Regimentc 



The Health of the Regiment. Their Firmness and Patriotism,- 
They Go For Old Abe. 

Headquarters Co. F, 102d, O. V. I. | 
Bellefonte. Ala., August 23,1864* f 

Thinking that it would not be taken amiss by the many 
patrons of your valuable Journal, I have taken the liberty to appro- 
priate a portion of my leisure time not occupied by the thousand 
and one duties of camp life, in jotting down what little of interest 
there is transpiring with us here in Alabama. 

The regiment is at present divided into detachments and 
distributed as patrols along the Tennessee Rriver for the distance 
of 30 miles, for the purpose of preventing any rebel force making- 
an invasion on Gen. Sherman'^s line of communications. Col. Giv- 
en remrnns in command of the right wing, and has his headquar- 
ters at Bellefonte, while Lieut. Col. Elliott, in command of the left 
wing, is at Dodsonville, a place further down the river. 

The health of the regiment is good, with the exception of a 
few cases of the ague. The boys appear to be enjoying themselves, 
and I think they are much better satisfied than they have b«en at 
any time heretofore. The rebels are quite plentiful along the river 
and skirmishing with them has become a f req uent occurrence. 

We have made several raids across the river of late, and suc- 
ceeded in breaking up a troublesome band of guerrillas, under 
the lead of one Gid Starkey, a desperado of some notoriety. We 
also destroyed a large amount of property, and after playing the 
mischief in general we retired to camp with our spoils and pris- 
oners. 

A decided Union feeling is developing itself among the citizens 
in our vicinity, and many openl}^ and fearlessly express the wish 
thn^ cnrrp«<5 mpv roc^f npon otir arrrts arid the TTnir'n ap'ain be re 



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stored. The g-entlemanly deportment of the regiment g-enerally 
towards non-combatants have won their respect, and has, in a 
g-reat measure, removed the universal predjudice ag-ainst the peo- 
ple of the North so characteristic ot the Southerners, and they 
own up that we have been misrepresented to them by their lead- 
ers, when they were led out of the Union, by the chain of seces- 
sion. 

Col. Given has rig-orously forbidden all foraging or tresspass- 
ing on private property, without a special order or permit, and to 
that effect he has issued an order and caused it to be read to every 
detachment at roll call. 

Lieut. Sands is the present commander of the company in the 
absence of Capt. Rowe and Lieut. Johnson. Lieut. Sands is a 
model officer and has many friends among those under his com- 
mand. He does his duty well and has proven himself a brave sol- 
dier and a gentleman. 

In reference to political matters, I suppose it would be inter- 
esting to our friends to know that our patriotism is unabated, and 
that we have the same unbounded confidence in the course of the 
Administration, and we are firm in the belief as ever that it will 
ultimately destroy the hydra headed monster treason and restore 
our distracted country to peace and prosperity. We can only see 
but one issue to the war, and that is to fight, 

"Till the last armed foe expires,'* 
or they consent to a reconstrucion of the Union. 

The news from all portions of the army are indeed cheering 
and promise a speedy end to the rebellion. It is generally believed 
among the soldiers that the present year will end the war. I hope 
they may not be disappointed. Yet it would be a hundred times 
better to let the war coninue for years than to have a peace that 
will be a dishonor to the Government. 

We are having some beautiful weather at present, quite cool 
and desirable after the excessive heat during the summer. As 
my letter has already assumed a greater length than I at first in- 
tended, I will close, hoping that it will have performed its mission, 

J. W. C. 



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From the 1026. Regiment, 



Headquartkrs 102d O. V. I. 
Decatur, Ala., September 26, 1864. 

It is with different feeling's I address you, from any time pre- 
viously. Part of our reg-iment has been in an eng-agement with 
the enemy, and I am sorry to say that 175 of the regiment killed^ 
wounded and captured. But few, however, are killed or wounded; 
the balance are prisoners of war. 

On the 24th inst., we were ordered to Athens, 18 miles from 
here, to reinforce the garrison there. At the time the order came, I 
was out scouting with part of the company. Our boys started 
with part of the 18th Mich., and fought the enemy for four miles, 
and were within 100 yards of the fort at Athens, (it having previ- 
ously surrendered,) was surrounded, and by overwhelming num- 
bers, compelled to surrender to Gen. Forest. Below we give the 
names of killed, wounded and prisoners in companies B and K, of 
the 102d Regiment: 

Co. B— Wounded— Sergeant W. H. White, H. Ridgely. They 
are in the hospital. 

Prisoners — Oscar Swineford, I. McCrea, R. Richards, Henry 
Krebbs, James Mercer, Wm. Pitinger, S. Potter, S. Richey, S. 
Slacher, H. Spafford, Joseph Wells, James Wells, M. Woods, Asa 
Webster, A. Bahn, D. Fisher, Jr., Samuel Hamer. In hospital, 
sick — A. Wissmore. — Total of company 21. 

Co. K— Capt. J. M. Sloan, M. W. Fast, W. H. Sprinkle, Jr., A. 
Fast, W. H. Anderson, J. B. Bechtell, J. F. Bryan, B. Burnside, J. 
Cassel, James Harrington, John T. Hartman, J. Kauffman, John 
Kissel, R. Leidig, J. Romain, Jeremiah Senger, George Steinmetz. 
J. Stofer, James Walker, Henry G. Smith. In hospital, sick and 
prisoners, E. Y. Morris, Charles P. Ogden, total 22. 

I cannot speak definitely of the fate of the above. They are 
reported as prisoners. Some of them may be killed or wounded, 
but I hope not; they are simply reported prisoners of war. 

Our communication is now cut, and as soon as the railroad is 
repaired, I will write you again. I presume there would have been 
some excitement in Ashland last Sabbath, if the news of the cap- 
ture of parts of companies B and K had been known there. 

I hope the fate of our brave comrades may not be as hard 
a» some of the prisoners in the{ hands of the rebels, but what 
can we expect from men who would rebel against such a country 
as ours. 



I 



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I never felt better, as far as health is concerned. I will try 
and not let the rebels gobble me up. 

Present my kind regards to all my friends. I have just re- 
ceived orders to march; we goon a three days' scout. I will write 
on my return. Affectionately, 

H. Ames. 



LETTER FROM CAPTAIN WAITS. 

For the benefit of the friends of my company, (G), 102d Regi« 
ment, who were captured at Athens, Ala., on the 24th of Septem- 
ber last, I will give a list of the captured, viz.: 

Daniel Kites, Sergt., E. Wailick, Corp., S. Frazier, Corp.. D. 
Johns, Corp., John Williams. Martin Williams, Kirk Slegel, M. 
Warner, John Schrader, John Mullett, Henry Taylor, Simon P. 
Price, Daniel Leighland, L. Remington, Isaac Trussel, H. Wach- 
tel, Samuel Stearns, Jacob Rice, W. Wallace, W. Tetters. 

Henry Taylor was killed, Washington Teters wounded, but 
doing well when last I heard from him. John Mullett died since 
he was put in prison. I had a note from then the 7th of November, 
the day I left Meridian, for Memphis, Tenn. They reported 
themselves well, and in good spirits. We sent them $1,000 in Con- 
federate money from Memphis by Capt. Henderson, who has 
charge of the prison in Cahaba, where the men are. 

A. Waits, Captain. 



FROM THE 102D OHIO, 



The Account of the Battle at Athens, Ala. 
List of Casualities. 

We are kindly permitted to publish the following extracts 
from a private letter received by Mr. John Van Meter, of Wooster, 
from his son Curtis of Co. I, 102d Ohio. We may add that a num- 
ber of the Wayne county boys have returned to the regiment since 



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the letter was written, and that the number lost is not as larg-e as 

was at first supposed. The letter sa5's: 

Decatur, Ala., September 29, 1854. 

Dear Parents:— On the 22d the rebs made a raid on the rail- 
road and tore it up and cut the teleg-rapb wire and commenced 
sacking- the town of Athens, but the niggrrs kept them out of the 
fort and prevented commissary stores from falling- into their hands 
during- the night. In the meantime, an order was dispatched for 
all the effective men in the regiment to go on a raid, except the 
pickets that were out at the time. Our regiment mustered 152 
men and 11 officers. The 18th Mich, regiment sent 215 men and 
several officers making in all about 370 men and took the cars 
about midnight and running to about four miles of Athens, where 
the track was torn up, but never suspectipg any force of rebels 
being there at the time. So they got off the cars, and threw for- 
ward skirmishers, which were fired upon immediately after de- 
ploying themselves. Our little column advanced cautiously, driv- 
ing the rebels before them, until they came to within about two 
miles of Athens, when a large forch of rebels suddenly emerged 
from the woods, and then the combat was renewed with redoubled 
vigor. Our boys still continued to drive the rebels until they came 
to within about one mile of Athens, when a force of about 4,000 sud- 
denly came upon them. But fortunately the bovs took shelter 
behind a large pile of wood near the raiload and used it as breast 
works, but the rebels got around to the rear .-nd commenced 
firing upon them, then the boys commenced making breast 
works both in front and rear, the front rank men fighting 
one way and the rear rank men flighting the other. But both ends 
of their breast works were open and the rebels improved the op- 
portunit}^ for thev got their artillerv into position and raked the 
W3od-pile from end to end. Then the boys took the wood from 
the sides and piled it up at the ends to prevent the artillery from 
doing so much destruction. But no sooner bad they removed the 
wood than did the 4,000 rebels again dash in upon them. This 
time the boys were compelled to abandon their works. 

The rebels got between the skirmish line and the regiment 
and thus cut off the skirmishers and captured the most of them. 
Some took to the woods and escaped, but only a few of them though. 
The remainder of the boys fonght on, endeavoring and hoping to 
reach the tort in safety. When the}^ were within half a mile of 
the fort, thev found it surrendered, and tho guns were thent urned 



16:) 

Tjpoti tbem from the tort. This must hav^e been a critical moment. 
Our boys were surroanded on all sides by tar superior numbers, 
and being exposed to a murderous tire, stood their ground and 
fought like heroes, uniil their ammunition had beea exhausted and 
all hopes of escape or reinforcements had vanished, and not until 
then did they surrender. 

If that Colonel m the tort had not surrendered, and held out 
for half aa hour looger and helped our boys, they would have fought 
their way to the fort and gained an entrance and then could have 
-defied the whole 6,000 rebels that were in the town. The Colond 
surrendered the fort and his whole regiment of niggers, also two 
block-houses, which was under his command. They also captured 
about 40 men that were sick in the hospital there, belonging to our 
regiment. 

They took all of the boys away t'jat were able to stand. One 
boy from Co. D, of our regiment, played off on them a little, and 
they left him. He came down yesterday. I will give the list of 
casualities as far as I know. We had 11 ofi&cers from our regi- 
ment with the band of boy».: 

Names of officers: Lieut. Col. Elliott, mortally wounded in 
the head; Maj. Huston, slightly wounded in the head; Maj, Patter- 
son, unhurt, but- prisoner, Capt. Zody, wounded in both legs and 
left shoulder; Capt. Sloan, prisoner and unhurt; Capt. Waits, pris- 
oner and unhurt; Capt. Lobach, slightly wounded; Lieut. Hinkle, 
slightly wounded; Lieut. Farmer, prisoner and unhurt; Lieut. 
Castor, fate unknown but snpposed to be killed; Lieut. Sands, 
supposed to be wounded. 

Here is alist of names of boys from Co. I, that were in the 
scout; 

Philip L. Horn, Wm. H. H. Wasson, Godfrey Omweg, Joseph 
McKelvey, George S. Schmutz, John C. Schmutz, Henry Judd, and 
Hamilton Weiler, (killed). 

We do not know if any of these are killed or not. We had 
three boys^from our company in the hospital at Athens at the 
time of the fight, two of whom were taken. Their names are: Em- 
men F. Taggart and Jacob Drobenstott, David Wagner was too 
sick to be moved. 

Our regiment lost 17 killed and 40 wounded, making an aggre- 
gate of 56 men in killed and wounded, over one-third the number 
we sent. That was pretty roug-h, wasn't it? 

Curt VanMeteh. 



071 

Complete List of the Captured at Athens, Afabama. 

We have been furnished the following complete list of the cap- 
tured of the 102d Ohio by the Adjutant of the Regiment, Lieut. 
McMonigal. He says: 

Thinking the friends v^ould like to see a complete list of the 
captured of the 102d, I will give you the names as furnished me 
from the company records: 

Co. H- — Corporals, James Huntsberger, Benj. Mnsser, Wm, 
Crow, Gideon Harrington, Wm. Mauk. Privates, John Baney, 
Henry Bahl, Otto Bardon, Amos Brenizer, D. T. Brenizer, Wm, 
S. Boone, Wm. M. Bricker, H. Chrintine, Alex. Heim, Cyrus Smith, 
W. S. Tracey, Wm. C. Waldorf, W. H. Woodruff, Miles Wells, 
T. J. Winn, R.C. Landes. 

Co. F — Robert Sands, 2d Lieut., Isaac J. Bechtel, Sergeant. 
Privates, George Anderson, Wm, Keeler, Orlando Merkel, J. H, 
Robison, Chas, W. Shoup, Henry Sidle, George Sheperly, I. Saun-- 
ders, D. G. Stine, Robert Tolbet, Wm. Weiker, and A. Biggs. 

Co. I— First Lieut. David Hinkle, Sergeants, Wm. H. H. Was- 
son, Godfrey Omvveg, Corporal Luther H. Weiler. ' Privates, 
Philip L. Horn, . Henry Judd, Joseph McKelvey, George S. Schmutz, 
John C. Schmutz, J. D. Drabenstott, Emmet F. Taggart. 

The above list is complete so far as the missing are concerned. 
None of the Wayne county boys of the companies were killed. 
Lin Jeffries of the 9th Ohio was taken at the time the fort was sur- 
rendered. Quite a number was wounded, but nothing reliable re- 
ceived as yet. 



Letter From Colonel Given. 



The I Old Regiment in Battle. List of Casualities. 

We are kindly permitted by Mrs. Given to publish the follow- 
ing letter from Col. Given, of the 102d Ohio, giving a brief account of 
the attack made on Decatur by Hood's army of 35,000, with a list of 
the wounded in the 102d. The letter will be read with deep interest 
by all who have friends in the 102d. 



r7i 

Headoxjarters, 102d O. V. I. } 
t)ECATUR, Ala., November 1, 1864. f 

Dear Wife: — lam just in receipt of yours of the 23d ult. One 
M'eek ago I wrote you a long- letter which I hope you have received. 
'On the next day the enemy 35,000 strong, under Gen. Beaureo-ard, 
•attacked this post, vigorously, and the fig-ht continued from that 
•day (Wednesday Oct. 26,) until Sunday morning-, when he raised 
the siege and left northward. We foug-ht like tigers, or we would 
all have been captured. Officers and men of the 102d behaved val- 
iently and fought like veterans. I v.'as in command of Fort No. 2, 
with my own and part of the 13ih Wis. regiment, and a battery of 
six guns. 

We had none killed and but sis wounded, one «evere, but will 
recover — five slight. I did not have my clothes off for four days 
and nights, and so of the men, and we worked the first two nights 
in a drenching- rain and without shelter. 

We may have another fight soon at this place, (thouo-h I think 
not,) or we may follow the enemy. You will soon hear exciting 
news from this region. 

List of wounded in the 102d Regiment: John Stone, Co. E, 
leg-, severe. John G. Brown. Co. G, shoulder. David W. Douglas, 
Co. I, side. Wm. -Langen, Co. B, hip. Joshua Carr, Co. F, left 
knee, David Branstetter, Co. F, arm. 

The enemy's loss in killed and wounded was about SOOand ours 
was less than 100. We took about 200 prisoners and had about 
fifteen men captured. I will give you further particulars when I 
get time. 

We are busy here. I am well — all are well. 

Affectionately yours, Wm. Given. 



From the io2d Regiment. 

We are kindly permitted to publish the following extract from 
a letter written by Lieut. McMonigal, of the 102d Ohio to his wife 
in Wooster, The letter will be highly interesting to all who have 
friends in the 102d Ohio: 

Headquarters, 102d Reg't., O. V. I. 
Decatur, Ala., October 30, 1864. 

I wrote you a letter on the 26th inst., in which I mentioned the 



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fact that our picl<ets are firing-, and tBat I thoxsght there was notfi- 
ing- to be apprehended from it. But I was greatly mistaken, in- 
deed, for Gen. Hood's whole army was there, and it was his ad- 
vanceguard that had ""opened the ball" with our cavalry. It wa& 
tij>;-ht times, you had better believe, and had they come on that af- 
ternoon, we would, doubtless, be enroute for Dixie, or otherwise 
' played out." Hood's force was not less than 40,0GO strong, (the 
number given by prisoners that were captured), while our whole 
effective force was scarcely 2,000. So, you see, ourr case was des- 
]>erate, and onl}' stubborn fighting kept them out of our outer 
field works, and had they known certainly how small a force we 
had to oppose tbem,. doubtless they would have "come right in to- 
see us."' The 1st Tennessee Battery, Co. B, commanded by 
Capt. Beach, and the 2d Illinois Battery, Co. D^ commanded by 1st 
Lient Barger, and Co. F, 1st Ohio Rattery, (the commander I do 
not know) kept them so busy, being well supported by the 2d 
Tennessee and the 110th Indiana cavalry, that^they concluded that 
it was best to draw off that night. Reinforcemets came to our re- 
lief "double quick, the 13th Michigan 140 men, and three commis- 
sioned officers; the 3d, 4th, and 29th Michigan regiments, all new^ 
the 78d Indiana, 174th Ohio, new, and the 14th U. S. colored, Col. 
Morgan, commanding, came in, together with two pieces of artil- 
lery, one 24-poander and one 12-pound howitzer. All told, our force 
was very nearly, if not quite, 6,000 men, and I think we could have 
made the "chivalry" some work before they would get possession 
of Decatur. They only left us yesterday, having stayed with ua- 
from the 26th to the 29th inst., all of which time was passed by 
U9 with much anxiety, and with almost constant skirmishing 
between their pickets and ours. The 1st Tennessee Battery lost 
three men and ten horses, all killed almost instantly, our regiment 
had seven men wounded, but only one seriously, and that is onlj 
a flesh wound, the bone escaping entirely. He was hit by one of 
the rebel sharp-shooters, at a distance of about half a mile. John 
Baumgardner, I think, got a little scratcq; the others you don't 
know. 

The 14th U S. Colored lost five commissioned officers and 40 
enlisted men in killed and wounded, losing 10 enlisted men and 
two officers in the first charge they made on a rebel battery. In 
the second charge they succeded in spiking two guns of the bat- 
tery, there being six in all. Theyare a splendid regiment of men, 
and would fight the devil, if be would come at them in the shape 
of a "Johnny Reb." The morning of the 27th, there was great 



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•s-prort over alUtle hand of 40 men, seven o! tbe 102d, four trora the 
13th Wisconsin, and the balance, 28, from the 18th Michigan, com- 
•manded by Capt, Moore, of the 18th Michigan, most of them were 
clerks and orderlies at Gen. Granger's Headquarters, made a sor- 
tie and captured two field and three line officers, and US men. On 
the night of the 26th, or rather 3 o'clock a. m., 27th, tbe rebels 
charged our pickets, driving them back under cover of the guns 
of the Fort, when they (the rebels) commeaced digging "gopher 
boles," and in tbe morning they made it quite unhealthy for us to 
show' our heads above the breast works. Those boys went to 
General Granger and volunteered to dislodge the "Johnnies," 
which thev did by creeping down tbe river bank, and getting in- 
to their rear, then making a charge on them. It was the most 
laughable thing I ever saw in my life, to see those "Gray-backs" 
creeping up ou.t of their holes, some of them containing five or six 
rebels. They would climb out over each other, and wave their 
bands, hats, or white rags, and run towards our boys, who soon 
marched them into the fort, amid the booming of cannon, rattling 
of musketry and cheers of tbe men. 

Our entire loss in killed, wounded and missing is estimated 
at 100, which I really think an over estimate. The loss of tbe en- 
emy as reported by themselves, is over 500, and I am confident 
thev suffered terriblv from our shot and shell. Gen. Sherman 
telegraphed Gen. Granger "to bold them till he came up and there 
would be an end to a large portion of the Southern Confederacy." 
He was to be here to-day or last night, but Granger telegraphed 
bim tbe state of affairs, and I think it doubtful whether he will 
stopbere now, but rather keep on after Hood. He (Hood) in- 
tended to cross the Tennessee River, but I think that bis game is 
check-mated, as there is a tremendous force opposing him in front, 
while Sherman is pommeling bim in tbe rear. 

I will write you tbe particulars as often as it is possible for 
me to do. Don't feel uneasy about me in tbe least. I am quite 
well, as are all the rest. 

Believe me ever &c., 

W. H. McMONlGAL, 

Lieut, and Adj. 102d O. V. L 



Vote of the io2cl Regiment. 

In a letter to Mr. Baumgardner, in V^ooster, Capt. Beerbow- 



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er, of Co. I, 102d Ohio, dated, Decatur, Nov. 9, gi'ves the following' 
vote of the regiment for President: 



Wayne county Soldiers, Companies H, F and I, 
Ashland " " " B and K, 

Richland '^ " " C, D and E. 

Holmes " " '' A and G, 

Other counties, 



Total in Regiment, 
Union majorities, 
Co. I, (Capt, Beerbower's) 



UNION 


DEIV 


103 


17 


45 


14 


81 


10 


65 


10 


19 


2 


313 


52 




261 


40 


5 



General Granger's Order. 

The following- order was issued by Gen. Granger, after Beau- 
regard withdrew from before Decatur: 

Headquarters Dlstrict Northern Alabama, [ 
Decatttr, Ala., October 30, 1864. \ 

General Order No. 29. 

The General Commanding takes pleasure in announcing to 
his command that Gen. Hood, with his whole army, has given up 
the attempt of this place and disappeared from our front. 

It is positively known that this force composed of the veterans 
of the Confederate States army in the West, under their ablest 
leaders, not less than (35,000) thirty-five thousand strong, and 
with ample artillery, left Palmetto, Ga., with the intention of tak- 
ing Decatur; as its occupation was deemed absolutely essential to 
them in their further offensive operations in Middle Tennessee. 

In view of this, their withdrawal from our front, after the seri- 
ous demonstrations made by them, can beatributed only to the ener- 
gy and industry of our troops, their manifest willingness to meet 
the enemy at any threatened point, and their gallantry, whenever 
opportunity offered for active operations. 

General Beauregard, himself, after the failure of the attempt 
on Thursday and Friday morning, ordered the siege lobe raised, 
saying that the reduction of the place, (if indeed it could be re- 



ITS 

duced) would not compensate for the immense loss of life to ac- 
complish it. 

In conclnsion, the General commanding-, tenders his sincere 
thanks to the officers and men of his command, for the cordial and 
earnest support they extended him, and (while he thinks all would 
have done so, had the opportunity offered), will take great pleas- 
ure in making- special mention to the General Commanding- De- 
partment, of those who particularly disting-uished themselves. 
By Command of 

Brig. Gen. GRANGER. 
(Signed) Sam. M. Kneeland, 1st Lieut. 18th Mich. I., and A. A. 

A. .G Official. 
P. V. WiLKiNS, 2d Lieut. 102d O. V. L, and A. A. D. C. 
W. H. McMoNiGAL, 1st Lieut, and Adj., 102d O. V. L 



Letter From the io2d Regiment. 

Stevenson, Ala., December 4, 1864. 

Mr. Editor — Dear Sir: — We once ag-ain venture to appear in 
your columns in a brief resume of the military movements in this 
quarter, during- the last month, in which the 102d Ohio has active- 
ly participated. Believing- that this account will not be uninterest- 
ing- to your readers, without further preliminary we proceed to 
our self-imposed task. 

From the raising- of the siege of Decatur, and departure of 
Gen. Hood's army about Oct. 31, until Nov. 23, this post lived in 
constant watch and expectation of the enemy. Frequent scouts 
and reconnoissances in force were made to determine his position 
and intentions. 

On the 23d of November from ominous proceedings, it was 
manifest that some military movement of importance was on the 
tapis — no less than the evacuation of Decatur. 

By noon of the 25th. all Government stores that could be re- 
moved were transferred to the north bank of the Tennessee, or 
on board two gunboats and two transports that came from Chat- 
tanooga for that purpose; also, all troops of the Decatur garrison 
to Murf reesboro, except the 102d Ohio, the 18th Michigan, the 1st 
Tennessee Battery and a few cavalry. 

Thousands of dollars worth of remaining stores were then 



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fired; also all public and private buildings that coald hs of use fo» 
the enemy. The conflagration together with the stir in camp,, 
drew the attention of the enemy, about 300 of whom attacked and 
drove in oar pickets^ whose return to the works were covered by 
the two regiments in the fort. We then withdrew, and on the 
double quick, crossed the pontoon bridge, about half a mile long^, 
when the work of its destruction began. Soon thereafter the 
rebel cavolry dismounted^ assaulted, and with a yell monnted the 
works, but found them deserted^ with little plunder to gratifv 
their rapacity. 

During the delay necessary to the destruction of the pontoons 
the gunboats, by way of amusement, we presume, shelled the 
'•chivalry" out of tawu again. 

The evacuation was effected without the loss of a man to us, 
while the enemy must have suffered considerably. At five o'clock 
p. m., the troops took up the line ot march for Huntsville, except 
a detail to guard Quartermaster's stores at the depot, which, for 
want ot transportation, were destroyed during the night, the de- 
tail joining us the next day by a shorter route. 

The Colonel and the "Silver Band" being indisposod went by 
gunboat to Bridgeport, thence by rail to Stevenson. On the morn- 
ing of the 27th, Huntsville was virtually evacuated, General Gran- 
ger asfeumlng command of the advancing column, which, when 
drawn out in marching order, including contrabands and refu- 
gees, was about five miles long. This day we reached Browns- 
borough, 28Lh Paint Rock, 29Lh Larkinsville, 30th Bellefonte and 
Decern ber 1st, within three miles ol Stevenson, when we were com. 
pelled to halt, as the bridge across Crow Creek was gone. 

The dfflculty was obviated by flooring the railroad bridge, 
across which the infantry and cavalry crossed. The train, con- 
sisting of abount 375 loaded Government wagons and one battery 
oi artillery, was run aboard flat cars and hauled into town by a 
locomotive. Tbis was acomplished in three days. During the 
transfer, three cars were thrown from the track, four men killed 
and several wounded, among the latter was privates Emry Barn- 
ard and Joseph Chapman, of the 102d Ohio. 

Notwithstanding the bad roads which delayed the train, our 
luarcli was comparatively a pleasant one, if, indeed, marching may 
be viewed in any light as pleasant, as the weather vvas warm and 
clear. Under the admirable management of Assistant Surgeon 
Mitchel, much suffering was obviated in the ]02cl, the sanitary con- 
dition of the regiment actually improved with every day's march. 



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■'On tlie 29tb, during- the marc n from Paint Rock to Larkins- 
ville, the 102d bad the post of rear guard. This day there followed 
in \be wake of the column about 300 mounted rebels, who attacked 
whenever opportunity offered. Twice during the day was our 
cavalry routed, and the 102d compelled to form in line to punish the 
haughty traitors for their temerity. The Regiment was cora- 
Tuanded by Capt. Wm. C.Scott, who, though a comparatively in- 
'experienced officer in the capacity of battallion commander, chose 
well and quickly his position of defease, disposing his trooos to 
the best possible advantage. 

These attacks atforded some of the most pitiful yet ludicrous 
scenes that we have ever witnessed, viz.: a stampede of 1,200 pan- 
ic stricken refugees and contrabaods. To get an idea of this 
scene, the reader will have to imagine their conveyances composed 
■of old, dilapidated vehicles of all kinds and descriptions from a 
dump cart up, their teams to consist ol' broken down horses, mules 
and oxen, hitched together in all possible combinations — horse and 
mule or ox; mule and ox, either single or all three hitched togeth- 
er; their harness a compound of tow, hemp, cotton strino-s and 
leather whangs; the individuals themselves of every age. size de- 
scription and shade of color, from the darkest "African" to the 
clear-skinned "Anglo-Soxou," their habiliments worn aad tattered 
of every hue and color. Now imagine these twelve hundred in 
number, thronging the road and roadside, the ^vagons and backs 
of their teams hastening on, regardless of all but self and personal 
satety, and commingling in harmoneous discord, the roar and rat- 
tle of the train, the frantic screams of terrified women, the piteous 
cries of children, the shouts of teamsters, urging by word and lash 
their jaded animals to their utmost speed; the collision and over- 
turning of vehicles, the breaking of harness, and the escape of the 
belabored mule or goaded ox, the desertion by the husband and 
father of his wife and family, the mother her child, the child his 
aged parent. Imagine all this, and you have a faint though true 
picture of the scene. 

We noticed one white female teamster with her family of liitle 
ones aboard, when her worn out team refused to proceed, drop her 
whip and lines, join her hands, raise them with her eyes to heaven 
and shout to be heard above the universal din, "Oh, Jesus! Jesus! 
Jesus!" Again we saw a female contraband with fear contorted 
countenance, seated unlady like, as it may seem, astride a sorrow 
stricken mule, before her riding an infant, behind, two of like 
description, urging her lagging steed with all energy of despair 



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Wehavehad no communications with Nashville since about 
the 28th ult., and have no neu's from the outside world, except by 
leleg-raph via. Coving-ton, Ky., Cumberland Gap, and Chattanooga. 
We are, therefore, quite solicitous that Hood be compelled to re- 
■ nquish his hold upon our communications. 

Heavy fortifications and earthworks are being- thrown up at 
this point in anticipation of an early visit from a portion of Hood's 
jirmy. 

The whole command here is at work dail}', as are also all rail- 
road and Government employes, refug-ees, contrabands, sutlers^ 
Joung-ers, etc. 

Those who do not come up willingly are pursuaded to do so by 
the pointed argument of a bayonet. 

While Gen. Granger is in command of all troops here, the 
Post is commanded by Col. Waldamer "Kryzyzanowski, 58th N. 
Y, Vol., Capt, Edward Washington Brueninghausen, of the same 
regiment, being Post Adjutant, 

The Holidays — days of feasting, festivities and convivial meet- 
ings are again near at hand. As the soldiers in camp are denied 
the privilege of participation in those mirthful scenes, we have re- 
course to imagination, and live over again the happy Holidays of 
the happier times of peace and tranquillity. We are also reas- 
sured and comforted by the belief that the possessors of the 
smiling faces gathered about the tables groaning beneath its load 
of rich viands and decanters of sparkling wine, are not forgetful 
of their fathers, brothers and sons that fill the ranks of the Union 
army. More anon. Yours truly, 

HuGHESv 



Letter From Prisoners of the io2d. 

Company H, 102d O. V. I. 
Decatur, Ala., Feb. 1, 1865. 

E. Foreman — Sir: I have just received a letter via. Vicksburg, 
Miss., from Harman Chrintine, of Co. H, 102d O. V. I., now a pris- 
of war at Cahaba, Ala., who says that the prisoners of the Regi- 
ment were being well treated with plenty to eat; also that Wm. 
Woodruff, Wm. Brown and Wm. Bricker, of Co. H, were sent 



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away some time ag-o, as they supposed to be exchang^ed, they ha\ 
ing- been on the sick list for some time previous. They join in 
sending their best wishes to all their comrades in arms, and their 
friends, and would be glad to hear from them in the way of a letter. 
The letter bears date of January 15, 1865, and closes as follows : 

''Henry B, is manufacturing a toothpick. We are to ha\ e 
fresh pork for supper. Good bye." 

Hoping you will give this note an .insertion in your paper ia 
behalf of the friends of the absent soldiers, I am, sir, 
Very res ^ectfully, 

Lieut. E. A. Palmer. 



Letter From the io2d Regimente 



Letter From the Prisoners of the 102d. List of 
Prisoners Dead, Sick or Exchanged, 

Decatur, Ala., February 24, 1865. 
Mr. Editor — Dear Sir- We bave the pleasure herewith to 
transmit to you for publication a brief letter accompanying a lis' 
of prisoners from the 102d Ohio, at Cahaba, Ala., from one of the 
prisoners addressed to Col. Given. We shall, however, abridge 
the list, giving the names of those only who have been subject to 
any change, while all others not mentioned, it will be remembered 
are well and doing finely. The letter is as follows . 



Military -Prison. Cahaba, Ala. 
January 27, 1865. 

Colonel: — I have the honor to transmit the following list of 
"Prisoners of War" from the 102d Ohio, at Cahaba, Ala., with ap- 
propriate remarks, &c., thinking that it may be of interest to you. 
You will notice by the few deaths and the comparative small num- 
ber in the hospital, that we are generally healthy. 

Some three weeks ago we received an abundant supply of 
clothing, blankets and stationery, sent by Maj. Gen. C. C. Wash- 



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burn, whieh v/as a rich treat to us. Now every man has a . .-. 
suit of clothing and a blanket. 

The weather here bas been very moderate, though a good deal 
of the time wet, but with our new supply of clothing, we can stand 
it very well without fire. 

We have a "flag of truce" mail once a week, but receive very- 
few letters. 

I have tlise- honor to be, Colonel, very respectfully, 

James W. Wells. 

Private Go. B, 102d O. V. L. 

Colonial Wm. Given, 102dO. V. I.: 

The following is the list above mentioned: J. F. Bryan, Co., 
K, sent to Savannah; J. B. Bechtel, Co. B, in hospital; W. L. Brown., 
Co. H, sent to Savannah; Wm. Bricker, Co. H, sent to Savannah; 
A. Biggs, Co. F, sent to Savannah, J. Drabenstott, Co. I, sent to 
Savannah; S. Huston, Co. E, sent to Savannah; D. W. Johns, Co. G, 
nurse in hospitail; D. Kauffman, Co. D, died Nov. 4, 1864; John 
Mullett, Co. G, died Oct. 26, 1864; F. Mitten, Co. A, sent to Savan- 
nah; J. Moreland, Co. A, sent to Savannah; G. Nouse, Co. A, sent 
to Savannah; Wm. Pittenger, Co. B, sent to Savannah; E. C. 
Rohrer, Co. D, died Nov. 12, 1864; J. H. Robison, Co. F, in hospital; 
J. H. Rever, Co. E, in hospital; O. Rankins, Co. E, died Oct. 31, 1864; 
S. RIcbey, Co. B, died Oct. 24, 1864; G. Straup, Co. D. in hospital; 
O. Swineford, Co. B, sent to Savannah; C. Sandel, Co. A, sent to 
Savannah; Wash. Teters, Co. G, in hospital; J. S. Underwood, Co. 
D, in hospital; J. H. Williams, Co. G, in hespital; E. F. Taggart, 
Co. I, sent to Savannah; Henry Judd, Co. I, sent to Savannah; E. 
Wallick, Co. G, in hospital; W. Woodruff, Co. H, sent to Savannah; 
M. Warner, Co. G, sent to Savannah, 

Tiiose marked "sent to Savannah" were sent there for ex^*' 
change, with sick and wounded, Nov. 20. 1864. 
With respectfully, yours. 

Hughes.; 




RIGHT WING 

Of the lozd at Decatur, Alabama. 



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FFICIAL REPORTS 



GENERAL GRANGERR LETTERS 



Zanesville, Ohio, Aug-ust 27, 1887. 
Mr. Flokien GiAuouE, — Dear Sir, In compliance v/ith your 
■request I enclose to you to-day, three of my Reports of the opera- 
tions of the troops under my command in Northern Alabama in 
1864. These Reports set forth very fully the services of the Brig- 
ade, of which your Reg'iment formed a part. 

The services of your Brigade whilst stationed in the City of 
Nashville, were of great importance to the success to the Army of 
the Cumberland, and deserve to be mentioned in a History of your 
Regiment. I regret that I have no official papers bearing upon 
the duty performed by that command during their stay in that 
City. 

Yours very respectfully, 

R. S. Granger, 

Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 



Zanesville, Ohio, Septemper 2, 1887. 
Mr. Florien Giauque — Dear Sir. After diligent search I 
have failed to find Gen. Sherman's order authorizing the troops 
composing the garrison at Decatur to put upon their banners the 
battles of Nashville or Savannah, as they might elect. I have a 
perfect recollection of the existence of such an order. It further 
complimented the officers and soldiers of the command for their 
gallantry and efficient services on that occasion. You can, there- 
fore, safely and with propriety assume the existence of such an 
order, and use the substance of it in your History. I agree with 
you that your History should be full, and above all truthful. I 
enclose to you a letter from Gen. Sherman which I referred to, 
and which you can use to show the extent of the services rendered 
by your Regiment and the commands associated with it. Also 
my letter to Gen. Cheatham and his reph'. H'r nvsvpr fvlh: im- 



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pies that Hood did intend to attack Decatur, and that the propri- 
ety of such an action was discussed by the general officers of his 
command It is a source of regret to me that I did not succeed in 
meeting Gen. Cheatham, as he proposed, then all doubt, if any 
exists would have been put at rest. 

Yours very respectfully, 

R. S. Granger, 

Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 



Zanesville, Ohio, September 12, 1887. 
Mr. FlorIen Giauoue — Dear Sir: The reports and your let- 
ter received. The reports I sent you were rough drafts from 
scraps retained with my war records, more complete reports of 
which I sent to the War Department to take the place of those pa- 
pers noted by Gen. Rousseau. 

Before page 5 reporting the Forest raid, the words on the top 
of the page "induced Granger," should have been preceded by the 
following: "On the 20th of September, Wheeler's forces esti- 
mated at 5,000, were reported at Courtland, Roddy at Shoal Creek 
and a force of 700 guerrillas had been seen at Somerville. This 
accumulation of forces, together with a well founded report that 
Forest was moving towards Middle Tennessee, induced me to,&c." 
The officers whose names you could not make out are, Lt. Col. 
Minnis and Col. Sipes. The whole report should be written in the 
first person: 

Our Brigade was first attached to Gen. Hooker's Corps, and 
when stationed in Northern Alabama belonged, as did all my com- 
mand, to the Reserve Corps under Gen. Rousseau. I send with 
this part of a copy of first report to Gen. Roesseau, which is more 
full than the report I sent you. 

Yours very respectfully. 

R. S. Granger, 

Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 



Zanesville, Ohio, December 1, 1883. 
Br. Gen. R. C. Drumm, Adjt. Gen. U. S. Army, 

General: — Having been informed that the reports rendered 
by me to Maj. Gen. Rousseau, commanding Reserved Corps from 
June 2d, 1864, to October 1st, 1864, are not on file in the war de- 



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partment. I respectfully request permission to submit the for 
lowing- report of the part taken by the troops under my command- 
in the defense of of North Alabama ag-ainst the raids of Generals 
Wheeler, Forest, Roddy, and others between those dates. This 
report is compiled from official papers still in my possion, 



ON THE 2d of June, 1863, my Brigade composed of the 18th 
Mich., 102d Ohio V.,73d Ind. and 13th Wis. V. I., relieved 
Gen. J. E. Smith's division in North Alabama, with Head 
quarters at Decatur, Ala. Soon after the Department of North 
Alabama was creaeted, embracing- North Alabama and the line of 
railroad from Decatur to Nashville, Tenn., and my command was 
increased by the addition of the 9th, 10th 11th and 12th Ind. Cav^ 
airy, the 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th and 12th Tenn. Cavalry, and the 10th and 
12th Col. Inf., and detachments of other commands, ag-g-reg-ating 
about 12,000. This force was posted from Stevenson to Decatur, 
along the railroad and Tennessee River, and from Decatur to Nash- 
ville, Tenn. Strong garrisons occupying Huntsville, Decatur, 
Pulaski and Columbia, Tenn, The Confederate forces occupying 
North Alabama at this dtae consisted of Cols. Canston'sand John- 
ston. s guerrillas, and Gen. Roddy's division of Cavalry. The lat- 
ter part of June and first of July, detachments of these forces 
crossed the Tennessee and raided upon the Memphis and Charles- 
ton R. R. and the plantations of loyal citizens, but after being se- 
verely punished by our forces in several engagements, they retir- 
ed to the south bank of the river and gave us no further trouble 
until about the 20th of August, when Gen. Roddy's Cavalry crossed 
the Tennessee, above Forence, to co-operate with Gen. Wheelr, who 
was moving south from Franklin, Tenn., followed by Gen. Rous- 
seau. After crossing the Tennessee, Roddy's Cavalry moved up- 
on Athens and Sulphur tressle. Having heard of this movement, 
of'the enemy, I reached Athens with a detachment of my old Brig- 
■ede. Soon after the enemy's cavalry had appeared before that 
place, the town was vacated and the garrison in momentary ex- 
pectation of an attack. I ordered the barricades removed and 
marched out with the 18th Mich., a section of artillery and about 
two hundred cavalry, attacked the enemy and after a short en. 
gageraent, drove him off with loss. Col. Prosser with the 2d Ten- 



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nessee Cav. defeated a second column of this corn mad ei" near SuT" 
phur Tressle. After this Gen. Roddy's cavalrv withdrew and 
recrossed the Tennessee, and was not again seen daring the 
Wheeler raid. After relieving Athens, I moved with my com- 
mand by rail to Pulaski. I found Gen. Starkweather with 1, SCO- 
cavalry, deployod in momentary expectation of an attack from 
Wheeler's command. Whilst Gen, Starkweather was reporting 
the situation, a courier arrived from Linnville, Tenn,, with posi-- 
live information that Wheelef was preparing to attack the garri- 
son guarding the R. R. bridge near that place. I started at once 
with the infantry by rail to Linnville, and ordered Gen. Stark- 
weather to follow as rapidly as possible with cavalry and artillery. 
Just before reaching the bridge, we discovered the enemy burning 
a train; they were soon driven off, and my command reached the 
post just in time to see Wheeler's cavalry complete their lines pre- 
paratory to attacking the post. Our skirmishers immediately 
engaged the enemy. They fell back without much resistance^ 
skirmishing continued until dark, but in consequence of Gen., 
Starkweather's failure to arrive before sundown, it was impossi- 
ble to bring on a gefleral engagement. Duriug the night Wheeler' 
abandoned the railroad and moved in the direction of Lawrence- 
burg, Tenn. Leaving the infantry to guard the R. R. I lo'ik com- 
mand of the cavalry and Vv^ent in pursuit of Wheeler. 1 c?ime up 
with his rear guard just beyond Lawrenceburg at da} light the 
next morning; our troops at once engaged and kept up a running 
fight for about four hours, when I received an order from Gen. 
Rousseau "to halt and form a junction with his command." After 
consulting with the officer who bronght the order, I was satisfied 
that Gen. Rousseau was not aware of the fact that I had overtaken 
the enemy and wa.s retarding his retreat. I therefore sent word 
to the Gen. commanding that I would continue the pursuit until I 
should hear from him again. I continued the pursuit of Wheeler, 
harrassing and retarding his retreat until 12 m., when I received 
a second order to "discontinue the pursuit of the enemy and move 
on Athens," to "cut off the forces of Gen. Williams." 

This movement gave time for Gen. Wheeler to cross the 
Tennessee River near Florence, and make good his escape without 
further lose. Gen. Williams ;vas never seen, being at that time 
well back into East Tennessee. This ended the Wheeler raid. 

The loss inflicted on Roddy's and Wheeler*s commands by 
my forces as reported by my detachment commanders was about 
two hundred killed and wounded and one hundred and eighty-three 



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prisoners. On my return to Decatur frDin the Wheeler raid, I 
learned that a brigade of Roddy's command was encamped near 
Courtland, Ala,, 22 miles from Decatur. I at once determined to 
surprise and capture him. This eKpedition would have been a per- 
fect success but for the misfortune of meeting- one of their com- 
mand returning just before daylight to camp, who gave the alarm 
as our troops were about to charge their camp. The enemy broke 
at once for the woods, making but little resistance, abandoninp- 
their camp and al! it contained, including their entire transporta- 
tion. A number of prisoners fell into our bands. 

On the 20th Sept., Wheeler's forces estimated at 5,000 were 
roported at Conrtland, Roddy at Shoal Creek and a forceof 700 
guerrillas had been seen at Somerville. This accumulation of 
forces, together with a well-founded report that Forest was mov- 
ing toward middle Tennessee induced me to believe thatGen .Forest 
meditated a raid into that district. I telegraphed Gen. Thomas 
to that effect and received in reply from Gen. Sherman, "You 
have nothing to fear from Forest. He hasg^oneto Mobile." Not- 
withstanding this assurance, I ordered Col. Spaulding with two 
regiments of Tennesse cavalry to make a reconHoissance in the 
direction of Shoal Creek, and sent Lt. Col. Minnis with the 3d 
Tenn. Cav. to Rodgersvilie to co operate with him. Coh Minnis 
turned off the road at Rodgersvilie lo look after Col. Spaulding in 
the direction of Lawrenceburg, when he attempted to get back 
again to the river road he found it occupied by Gen. Forest's forc- 
es. He was, therefore, obliged t^) take a more circuitous road 
back to Athens, and Forest, in the meantime, arrived there before 
him unannounced. It was reported to me that Gen. Roddy's cav- 
aley was threatening Athens, On receipt of this information. Col. 
Prosser with the 2d Tenn. and about 360 men of the 102d Ohio 
and 18th Mich, were ordered at once to the relief of Athens. Col. 
Prosser soon encountered Roddy's cavalry, which accompanied 
Forest, and with the assistance of the infantr}^ detachment under 
Lt. Col. Elliott, 102d Ohio, drove them back on Forest's command 
at Athens. T'his gallant command fought their way to the very 
walls of the fort only to find it in the hands of the enemy, Col. 
Campbell, 110th Colored Infantry, bad only a short time before 
basely surrendered the fort and garrison without an^effort for its 
defense upon the summons of Gen. Forest. Col. Elliott's little com- 
mand was then surrounded and after a most heroic fight and the 
loss of one-third of their force and their g-allant leader, surren- 
dered. Col. Prosser succedded in extricated in extricating- his 



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command and returned to Decatur. The loss of Roddy and For- 
est in this engagement in killed and wounded was one hundred- 
and thirty-nine. After the capture of the post at Athens, Forest 
moved upon Sulphur Trestle and captured it after a gallant de- 
fense on the morning of the 28th of September. Col. Lathrop^ 
commanding being first killed and Lt. Col. Minnis, 2d in command 
struck senseless by a piece of shell, and the ammunition being 
nearly exhausted. E'rom Sulphur Trestle Forest moved north to 
Elk River. As most of my cavalry was at this time north of ^.hat 
river and almost entirely under the control of Gen. Rousseau, I 
telegraphed Gen. Starkweather to destroy the bridges and ferries- 
on Elk River and retard the march of Forest until Gen. Rousseau 
could collect a force at Pulaski. What was done by Gen. Stark- 
weather was never reported. Gen. Rousseau about this time moved 
to Pulaski and took command of all the troops north of Elk River 
in person. 

On the 27th Septemqer I recived positive information that 
Wheeler with his entire force had passed through Somerville go- 
ing east and that Cranston with seven hundred and eighty men had 
moved to Larkin's landing. In consequenc of the withdrawal of 
this force from the vicinity of Decatur, I on the 29th, ordered the 
13th Wis. Inf, and the 11th Ind. Cav, to Huntsville, and left for that 
post myself. On arriving at Huntsville, I sent out Maj. DeLong 
with a scouting party in the direction of New Market, who report- 
ed early in the afternoon that he had found the enemy four miles 
from that place, and at four p. m. he attacked our pickets on the 
Pulaski road, and soon after a flag of ;ruce was sent in by Gen, 
Geo. A. Buford, with a demand for the surrender of the post and 
garrison. This demand was peremptorily declined. No attack 
was made that night, but early in the morning a renewal of the 
summons to surrender was made with great bombast by Gen, 
Forest; this being declined, they deployed their forces about s, 
mile from the city, and alter consuming most of the day in dis- 
play and some skirmishing, Buford marched off in the direction 
of Athens. After Bnford's departure, it was ascertained that 
Forest had divided his forces, and that Batord with between four 
and five thousand men, (cavalry,) and four pieces of artillery had 
been sent to Huntsville. On the morning of the 1st of October the 
advance of Buford arived in the vicinity of Athens, and on the 
morning of the 2d he demanded the surrender of the post. On the 
28th ot September I bad re-occupied the post at Athens, with a 
ii-arrison of two hundred men from the 73d Ind. Inf. and one hun- 



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dred men from fhe llth Ind. Cav., under the command of Lt. Col. 
Wade, Col. Wale refusing- to surrender, Buford made two vig-or- 
•ous attacks upon the entrenchments, both of which were repulsed 
•with loss. Buford then withdrew and marched in the direction 
of Florence, where he crossed tbe Tennessae river on the 3d. 
■Gen. Forest, by the way of Columbia and Lawrence burg, soon fol- 
lowed, 

R. S. Granges, 

Brig-. Gen. U. S. A. 



Zanesville, Ohio, October 10, 1883. 
Bt. Gen. R. C. Dr-umm, Adjt. Gen. U. S. Army, 

Dear Sir, — I have the honor to make the following- report of 
the part taken by a portion of the forces under my command dur- 
ing the Forest raid upon the T. and A. R. R. 

On the return of Maj. Gen. Rousseau from the pursuit of 
Wheeler, and after the recei^^t of the order for the return of th,e 
troops to their stations, I was so apprenensive that the enemy, 
who was still in large force on the south side of the Tennessee^ 
might recross and attack the R. R. that I retained ths 102d Ohio 
and 78d Ind. Inf. at or near Decatur and the 13th Wis. Inf. at 
Huntsville, where these forces might be available'to meet the raid- 
ers. It also occurred to me that Forest would avail himself of 
the withdrawal of Gen. Smith's Corps to Missouri, to enter Mid- 
dle Tennessee, and so telegraphed to Gen. Sherman about the 18th, 
and received answer through Gen. Thomas, that I had nothing to 
fear from Forest, who had gone to Mobile. 

But the Maj. Gen. commanding, (Rousseau) requiring the ser- 
vices of the 12th Ind. Cav. 800 strong, and the 4th Tenn. Cav. 550 
strong, (the former being sent to Tullahoma, and the latter to 
Nashville), my reserve much reduced by sickness, was entirely 
absorbed in filling the places of these- regiments. On the 20th 
Sept., Wheeler's forces, variously estimated at from 5,000 tO 6,000 
cavalry, was at or near Courtland, where it was rumored he was 
preparing his forces to recross the river or attack Decatur. Rod- 
dy at the same time was reported at Shoal Creek with three reiri- 
ments. Other rebel forces, it was stated were also in tbe same 
district. On the same day we received information that a force of 
700 men had passed Somerville, going toward Guntersville. To 
watch the movements of these large forces of the enemy with my 



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now much reduced command and to Tea'ce a proper force to guard; 
the important points was no easy task. I, however, requested 
the naval officers commanding- j^unboats to patrol the river, and 
put detachments on twoof them, with directions to land at vari- 
ous points and penetrate the country as far as it was safe, to obtain 
information. Col. Minnis, 2.d Tenn. Cav. at Athens, I ordered to 
Rodg-ersville and Lexing-ton, to co-operate with Col. Spauldin^r^ 
who left Pulaski on the nir^ht of the 21st for Shoal Creek to look 
after the enemy there. Unfortunately, Col. Minnis, not hearing^ 
from Col. Spaulding-, turned off the river road aed marched part 
ot the way to Lawrenceburg. When he returned to the road, he 
found it occupied with Forest's cavalry in such force as to compel 
his retreat back to Lawrenceburg. Forest, in the meamwhile,. 
moved off the road to Athens, cutting oir commumications with 
that place and thus rendering me timely information of the advance 
of the enemy for which he was sent out. 

I had a few days previous sent a squadron of cavalry to Flor- 
ence to watch the enemy's movements opposite that place. Not- 
withstanding all these precautions, the enemy in considerable 
force made bis appearance unannounced at the plantation of Jack 
Harris, five miles from Decatur, on the afternoon of the 23d of 
September. As soon as this information was received. Col. Pros- 
ser with 250 cavalry, 2d Tenn., all the available cavalry at the post 
was sent to drive him off. Col. Given, 102d Ohio, was directed to 
send bis regiment to protect the road, and reinforce Athens, but 
most of bis regiment being on picket, he sent instead a detachment 
of 360 men composed of 150 of the 102d Ohio, and 210 of the 18th 
Mich. Inf. Col. Prosser drove the enemy back to Athens, where 
he found Forest with his command of what he supposed to be 
3,000 or 4,000 men. He extricated his command from this posi- 
tion with considerable skill and returned to this post at 6 a. m. on 
the 24th. On the report of Col. Prosser I immediately set about 
gathering up all the avaiable forces without leaving posts defense- 
less to send to the relief of Athens. I was already on my way with 
250 infantry and about 250 cavalry, when it was reported that the 
fort at Athens had surrendered, and the detachment seat to its re- 
lief had most gallantly fought their way through Forest's force to 
within sight of the fort, only to find that it had been basely surren- 
dered to the enem}' with its ample garrison of 600 men, by Col. 
Campbell, without firing a gun, after Forest's demand for its sur- 
render. 

The conduct of the detachment of the 18tb Mich, and 102d 







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LFFT WING 

Of the i02d at Dectur, Alabama. 



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'Ohio, under Lt. Coi Elliott, was liero'ic as that of Campbell was 
base; when within four miles of Athens, they met and drove back 
an entire brig-ade of eleven hundred men, under Col. Warren, and 
forced their way to the very walls of the foit in the face of For- 
est's entire force. So boldlj' and determined!}^ did these men fig"ht 
until the tall of their leader, that the enemy, after their surrender 
accused the officers of making' their men drunk, insisting that no 
men would fight with such desperation unless under the influence 
of liquor. I have no doubt they would have forced their way into 
the fort, if they had not found it in the hands of the enemy. About 
one-third of the detachment, including^ every officer ot the 102d 
Ohio, was either killed or wounded before surrendering. There 
is no doubt they inflicted a still greater loss upon the enemy. 
Capt. Parrish, A. A. G. oa staff of Gen. Roddy, admitted a loss in 
his command alone of 109 men. As certainly another of Forest's 
brigades was engaged at the same time. 



HEADQUARTERS, 1st BRIGADE, 4th DIV. 20th A. C. 
Decatur, Ala.. October 14th, 1864. 

General Order No. 30. 

The Brigade has to mourn the loss of a brave officer, Lieut. 
Col. J. D. Elliott, 102d Ohio Vol. Inf 'ty., who died yesterday morn- 
ing of a wound in the head. On the 24th of Sept. 1864, sent with a 
detachment of his own Reg't. and of the 18th Mich., in all not four 
hundred men, to reinforce Athens. He fought his way with this 
little band of heroes through the forces of Gen. Forest, number'- 
ing not less than four thousand men, to within sight of the fort, 
only to find it surrendered. He was struck down by a ball in the 
head when only ten paces from the Brigade Colors of Col. Warreu 
of Gen. Roddy's command. The highest tribute is paid him and 
his men by the enemy. Col. Warren having stated that he never 
saw such fighting, and that be could not stand before them with 
his Brigade. All honor to the noble band, the living and the dead. 
By order of 

COL. CHAS. C. DOOLITTLE. 
Chas. J. Hewitt, 

Lieut, 18th Mich., A. A. A. G. 



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THE DEFENSE of DECATUR 



General Granger's Report. 

Headquarters Dist. of Northern Alabama. | 
Decatur, Ala., November 6. 1864. j 

Major B. H. Polk, 

A. A. Gen. Dist. Tenn.: 

Major — 

1HAVE THE HONOR to submit the following- report of the 
part taken by the forces under my command during the op- 
erations of Hood's and other Confederate forces in Northern 
Alabama, from the 12th to the 30th of October, 1864. 

Having- learned that Gen. Hood bad left Gen. Sherman's front, 
and was moving- northward and supposing- it was possible he 
might attempt to pass through my District into Tennessee, I im- 
mediately dispatched my Alabama scouts to Gadsden and Blunts- 
ville to watch the movements of the enemy, with instructions to 
report at once if any portion of Hood's command should move in 
the direction of the Tennessee. The gunboats were notified of 
the movements of Gen. Hood, and were ordered, or requested to 
thoroughly patrol the river. The information derived from these 
sources proved to be of the most valuable character; the move- 
ments and distribution of my forces, except when otherwise di- 
rected, were based upon these reports. 

On the 14th of October I was informed that Hood's army was 
in Dearhead Cove, Dug Gap, fifteen miles from Caperton's ferry, 
and were moving in that direction. This dispatch was immedi- 
ately forwarded to the General commanding the Department, and 
the 11th and 13th Ind. Cav. enroute to Nashville were ordered by 
me to be stopped at Stevenson, to reinforce the command at that 
post, and to assist in obstructing the passage of the river at Caper- 
ton's ferry, if it should be attempted. All the gunboats were or- 
dered up the river, and went myself to Bridgeport. Before reach- 
ing that place, I was satisfied from information derived from my 
own scouts, that Hood did not intend crossing the Tennessee 
above Decatur. 

On the 23d, I received a telegram from Gen. Rousseau that 
Forest, Lee and others were moving upon Tuscumbia, with a view 



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to operating- against Gen. Sherman's communications. Soon after 
the receipt of this telegram I learned from one of my scouts, just 
in from Courtland that Roddy was at Courtland and Moulton, and 
Forest at or near Forence, accumulating- supplies. This infor- 
mation, and such as I received of the movements of Hood's forces, 
satisfied me beyond a doubt that Roddy and Forest were waiting- 
for Hood, and that the latter intended to effect a crossing- at De- 
catur. All this information was telegraphed to Gens. Thomas and 
Rousseau, with an earnest request that 2,000 infantry and 1,000 
cavalry be sent to reinforce the command at Decatur. The gar- 
rison at that time consisted of the 18th Mich., 102diOhio, 10th Ind. 
Cav., 2d Tenn. Cav., Batterry "A" Tenn. Art., Battery "F" 1st 
O. and Battery "D" 2d 111. Art., in all about (1.800) one thousand 
eig-ht hundred effective men. I had also on the M. & C. R. R. 
from Athens to Stevenson, and on the Tennessee River the 73d 
Ind. and 13th Wis. and parts of the 11th, 12th and 13th Ind. Cav. 
As the safety of this R. R. and the Decatur and Nashville R. R. 
threatened by Johnson's and Roddy's cavalry, was of the utmost 
importance, I was able from these scattered forces to g-ather only 
about three hundred (300) men to reinforce Decatur. With this 
small force I was obliged to guard a line of workt fully 1,600 yards 
long. In this enumeration of my forces I do not take into account 
the troops stationed between Pulaski and Nashville, fully 2,500 
effective men, it will be remembered I could not control on the oc- 
casion of the enemy's previous demonstration upon my district. 

On the 24th I received a report that 15,000 of Hood's command 
were at Long hollow, twenty miles from the Tennessee. I was 
now satisfied that the report of my scouts right from Hoods army 
was correct, namely, that the officers and men of Gen. Hood's ar- 
my talked unreservedly of capturing Decatur and crossing the 
Tennessee at that point. Decatur was beyond doubt the point 
where Hood should have crossed, if he designed moving into Tenn- 
esse, directly south of Nashville, and connected with that city by 
a R, R. and a good turnpike road, running through a rich country, 
Decatur in his possession, he had command of the best crossing- 
of the Tennessee River from Bridgeport to its mouth. The south 
bank commands the north for several miles above and below the 
town. Opposite and separated from the river by a strip of land 
from one to two hundred yards wide is Swan lake, a narrow strip 
of water, but too deep for fording and about three miles long. On 
the north side it was bordered with swamp and forest. Behind 
this lake he could have manned his whole army after crossing tha 



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Tepnessee, and at pleasure move out in the direction of NashvilTe 
from either end by good roads covered by his batteries on the 
south bank ol the Tenneesee. 

Believing- that Gen. Hood was advised of the advantages of this- 
crossing of the Tennensee, I had not a doubt but that he designed 
moving on Decatur. On the 24th I again asked for reinforcements^ 
making a special requisition on Gen. Rousseau for a thousand men 
from Col. Sipes's command at Columbia, but Gen. Rousseau tho't 
tbey could not be spared. Gen. Thomas, however, ordered the 
29th Mich V. to report to me. On the afternoon of the 25th, I went 
toHuntsville, to look- aftfr the defenses of the R. R. from that 
point. On the afternoon of the 26th Oct. I rceived a telegram 
from Col. Doolittle, "that a scout sent out by him on the Somerville 
road had been driven in by the enemy and that they appeared 
about (500) five hundred strong in his immediate front." I 
telegraphed this to Gens. Thomas and Rousseau stating that Ldid 
not think this more than the advance of Hood's army, his main 
force not having had time to arrive before Decatur. My supposi- 
tion proved to be correct, as this attack was inade by a detachment 
of Walthal's division, Stewart's corps. I iraraediatelv made ar- 
rangements to leave with every available man from Huntsville for 
Decatur. I arrivf>d there at five p. m., just as the fight was clos- 
ing, our troops withdrawing to the defenses. The artillery con- 
tinued to exchange shots until dark. Col. Doolittle during this 
short engagement handled his very limited torce admirably. Dur- 
the night of the 26th, the gunboat "Stone River" arrived with 200 
men from the 18th Mich, and 102d O. V. Detachments of the 73d 
Ind. V. from Athens also arrived. The enemy also received dur- 
ing the night heavy accessions, and the morning showed us his 
lines stretching from the river on our lett, out across the Somer- 
ville and Moulton roads covering about two-thirds of our front 
No demonstrations were made by him during the day, nothing 
more than a little artillery firing and bush skirmishing between 
the pickets. Reinforcements arrived during the day. Parts of 
the Col. Int., the 68th Ind. and 13th Ind. Cav., increasing our forc- 
es to about (3,000) three thousand men. During the day the re- 
mainder of the enemy's forces arrived and covered the remainder 
<>: i our front. 

The country about our fortifications for a distance of eight 

hundred yards is a level plain entirely unobstructed. At that 

iiistance it is intersected by a ravine, and watercourse commenc- 

ng on our left and running across the Somerville, Moulton and 




PONTOON BRIDGE 

Across the Tennessee River at Decatur, Ala. 



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Courtland roads. Beyond the ravine, the ground rises in a sparce- 
!y wooded slope for 700 yards, and is bounded by a dens^e wood 
■stretchings across our entire front and bending- northward reaches 
the river at a distance of 1.000 yards upon our rig-ht. Durinu- the 
morning- of the 27th, the rig-ht of our picket line was forced back 
by the enemy's skirmishers, but in the afternaon it was most o-al- 
lantly recovered by a detachment of the 73d Ind., and at night our 
picket line occupied its old ground. About 3 a. m. on the 28th, the 
enemy, under cover of a dense fog, which enveloped everything, 
charged our picket line, driving it in on our main line of works. I 
made no attempt to resist this advance of the enemy. By this 
charge the enemy obtained possession of the ravine above men- 
tioned, and threw up a line of rifle. pits from near the river on our 
left diagonally across our front to a point opposite our extreme 
right and about 300 yards from our principal wirlc. These pits 
w<-:re filled vfith sharpshooters. About 9 a. m. on the 28th the fog- 
lifted and the work of the enemy during the uiight was developed. 
It was evident immediately that it was necessary if possible to 
dislodge him from this position, as they perfectly covered every 
g-un in our largest fort. To accomplish this work, I selected the 
18th Mich,, much reduced, Captain Moore commanding. They 
were joined by detachments of the 102d Ohio and 13th Wis. V. 
Before this detachment started, I nottfiod comm.anding- officers of 
the forts and along the lines of works what was to be done. I di- 
rected all the artillery within canister range of the rifle-pits, with 
instructions to open fire as soon as the assaulting column should 
make its appearance. The guns of Fort No. 2, I directed to be 
loaded with shell and to open upon the extreme rig-ht of the ene- 
my's rifle-pits; at the same time the breastworks were lined with 
our best marksmen who were to open upon the enemy as soon as 
he appeared above his works. I organized a supporting column 
about (500) five hundred strong- joined by the picket force and fifty 
cavalry, in all about seven hundred men, under Lt. Col. Thorn- 
burg, with instructions to move out from the works as soon as the 
movement should be discovered. Everything being in readiness 
Captain Moore moved out at our extreme right, deployed his men 
under cover of the river bank, moved quietly up to the open ground 
and with a yell, which was answered by every man along our en- 
tire line, charged the flank and rear of the enemy's rifle-pits. The 
enemy, surprised and panic stricken by this bold and unexpected 
movement, rushed from their rifle-pits to encounter the well di- 
rected fire from the works. Larg-e numbers were killed or 



time was deeply interested in all that transpired at Decatur and' 
Nashville, but as the operations to my rear were confided tc 
Thomas, I could not go behind him, nor does it seem called for. I 
have never heard anyone question the importance of the defense 
you made of the line of the Tennessee. A.s to the relative impor- 
tance of the several posts, that must be decided on as the prog'ress 
of History is developed. You do well in making- your report full 
and clear, and it will go to the the Adjutants General's office at 
Washing-ton, where the Historian will seek for his material. I wish 
you all honor and success, and congratulate you on having so- 
fine a place at the close of the war. My best regards to your wife 
and mother. 

Your friend, 

W, T. Sherman, Gen. 



Zanesvile, Ohio, May 24, 1881. 
General Cheatham. Nashville, Penn. 

General — I have been informed that you purpose to publish 
an account of Hood's advance upon Nashville, in answer to nu- 
merous statements that have appeared in the papers recertly, on 
that subject. It has occurred to me to ask you a few questions in 
relation to your movements before crossing the Tennessee, which 
will, if answered affirmatively, at least in my opinion, prove your 
judgment on one occasion much superior to that of the other 
general officers of your army, except only that of Gen. Hood. 

First, will you please inform me if it was Gen. Hood's inten- 
tion before arriving at Decatur, to attack that place, cross the 
Tennessee at that point, and move north upon Nashville? The 
next question — alter reaching Decatur, was a council of war call- 
ed to consider the the propriety of attacking that post? and if so, 
as I have been informed, did you and Gen. Hood continue to urge 
the propriety of assaulting that post; but were opposed by Gen. 
Beauregard and all other officers composing the council? and that 
in consequence of this persistent opposition, Gen. Hood was in- 
duced to abandon the attack and moved on to Florence? Such a 
report reached me soon after you left, and from such authority 
that I was induced to mention it officially. I was pursuaded the 
more readily to credit this report, as it appeared to confirm what 
was stated to me by my scouts, who were in your camp only a few 
days before, and because, in my opinion, it was just what you 



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should have done. If Gen. Hood had attacked Decatur on the 27th 
or morning of the 28th October he could have carried the place 
with no greater loss than he sustained whilst in front of it. The 
garrison on the 27th was not to exceed 2,200, all told. The de- 
fenses were little more than rifle-pits, the ditches on the flanks 
not over six feet in width, and around the bastions nowhere to ex- 
ceed nine feet. Your men could have jumped them anywhere. 
Decatur in your possession, you were but one hundred and ten 
miles from Nashville, all the way over a good turnpike road and 
through a country amply capable of supplying your array with 
subsistence. The store houses at Decatur would have rationed 
your whole army for three or four days. You could have been \n 
Nashville by the 1st or 2d of November, before more than a divis- 
ion of Gen. Thomas's army could have reached that city. There- 
fore, there would have been no battle of Franklin or Nashville. 
Two-thirds of Thomas's command cut off from Kentucky, the de- 
pot at Nashville, with its vast supplies in your hands, and all Ken- 
tucky open before you. The moral and physical effects of such a 
move with such results cannot be exaggerated. The march to the 
sea would have been a failure. I will say in conclusion that it 
ivould have been consistent with your character as we understand 
it to have given the advice referred to above. 

R. S. Granger, Brig. Gen. 



Beech Grove, Tenn., August 22, 1881. 
Gen. R. S .Granger: 

Dear Sir — Yours of June 18th receieved. I cannot reply to it 
until I visit Nashville, where what few official papers I possess 
are deposited. I will be in Cincinnati on the 15th and 16th of Sep- 
tember, 1881, at the meeting of the Mexican Veterans. If it is 
convenient for you to meet me there, (as you are not far off) I 
would like for you to do so. I am now growing old and I cannot 
risk my memory alone. What few papers I saved are in the pos- 
session of my Adj. Gen., ex-Gov. J. D. Porter. I will see him be- 
fore I visit Cincinnati, and w'U see what papers he has in regard 
to the meeting at Decatur. I know that I was in favor of an attack, 
as the short way to Nashville. But on account of my deficient 
memory, will write nothing that is substantiated by others that 



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though hit a number of times, were very sUg■b^ there being" but 
two killed and eleven wounded. Captain Naylor of the ''Stone 
River" and Captain Morton of the "Gen. Thomas" handled their 
steamers skilfully and delivered their fire with good effect. They 
and the men of their command deserve honorable mention, 

During- the night of the 28th October, it was evident that some 
general movement was in progressalong the enemy's lines, but 
a dense fog having again enveloped everything, it was impossible 
to gain any clew to it. On the morning of the 2Vth, it became ap- 
parent that the enemy's forces were withdrawing, and sending 
out a reconnoitering party, under Col. morgan, I ascertained that 
only a strong rear guard remained. Col. Morgan engaged this 
force, but found it so strong that he was compelled to fall back. I 
ordered out a heavy reinforcement, under coverof which, he with- 
drew in good order. About 4 p. m. I sent out another detachment 
which drove the enemy from the last line of rifle-pits, and at dark 
the original line of pickets was established. 

This ended the siege of Decatur. For a day or two occasion- 
al bodies of cavalry appeared in our front, but no considerable 
force threatened our works. Our loss in killed and wounded was 
only one hundred and thirteen. From all the information I could 
gather from deserters, prisoners, citizens and negroes, the loss 
of the enemy must have exceeded thirteen hundred in killed and 
wounded and prisoners. Some days after writing my report ot 
which this is a copy, Captain Kneeland, A. A. A. Gen., informed 
me that he saw it stated in a Mobile paper, the writer an officer of 
Hood's army, that their loss amounted to fifteen hundred. I take 
pleasure in making favorable mention of Lt. Col. Prosser. com- 
manding the 2d Tenn. and 10th Ind. Cavalry, on he first days, 
when he stubbornly resisted the advance of the enemy. Also, I 
wish to make favorable mention of Col. Given's 102d Ohio Vol. Inf. 
commanding Fort No. 2, Lieut. Samuel Kneeland and Lieut. John 
W Hall, A. A. C.,who rendered valuable services in carrying or- 
ders, 

I am. Major, 

Very respectfully, 
[seal] 
R. S. Granger, 
Brig. Gen. U. S. A. 



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General Granger's Comments. 

Zanesvillb, Ohio, September 10, 1878. 

I would call the attention of those who may read this to the 
importance of the defense of Decatur, which I believe has never 
been justly appreciated. If Hood had stormed Decatur on the 28th, 
before the arrival of any considerable reinforcements, he would, 
beyond doubt, have taken the place with no greater loss than he 
sustained whilst before it from the sorties of the garrison; that he 
did not do so, I attribute to the resolute attitude and repeated and 
gallant attacks of the troops that defended it. These attacks v/ere 
made with a view in great part to impress the enemy with an ex- 
aggerated idea of the strength and confidence of the garrison. I 
claim, therefore, tor the troops ot that command, the credit of 
having produced this impression, and thus saved Decatur from 
asssult. If this impression had not been made, and Hood, as I am 
informed he wished to have done, but was deterred from under- 
taking by Gen. Beauregard and a majority of his officers at a 
council of war; had he attacked and captured the post on the 28th, 
he conld easily have reached Nashville before Gea Thomas's 
army, and by so doirg cut Gen Thcn^as off from his reinforce- 
ments from Missouri and the North, which enabled him to make 
his successful fight at that City more than a month later. 

Wood's Division of Thomas's army only reached Athens, ten 
miles above Decatur, on the 31th. Hood by that time would have 
been beyond Columbia; there would have been no battle of Franklin, 
and Hood would have entered Nashville almost unopposed. 

R. S. Granger, 

Bt. Maj. Gen. U. S. A. 



Headquarters Military Div. op the Miss. 
St. Louts, Mo., July 18th, 1865. 

Gen. R. S. Granger. Huntsville, Ala.: 

Dear Granger — I have received your letter of July 6th, with 
enclosed copy of your report of the defense of Decatur, Ala., which 
I will forward at your request to John Sherman, who will be inter- 
ested in it. You can well understand that the matter occurring^ 
almost undev my eyes I have had plenty to do, but at the same 



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wounded, whilst others threw down their arms, ran toward^i oar 
assaulting- column and surrendered. Captain Moore's party swept 
almost the first line of the enemy's rifle-pits, when the Captain halt- 
ed his command, being- greatly reduced, g-uarding- his prisoners, 
and commenced to retire, covered by the supporting- column on 
his left. The enemy made no efTort to recover his position. Cap- 
tain Moore returned to the works, having thoroughly cleared this 
line of rifle-pits and brought with him 140 prisoners, including- five 
commissioned officers killed, and wounded a larg-e number of the 
enemy, with the loss of only one killed and three wounded. 

This affair, though of short duration, was in its results of 
great importance to us. It drove the enemy from a strong- and 
important position, which he was unable again to occupy, and in- 
spired the garrison with g-reat confidence. 

During the night, whilst the enemy was establishing- himself 
as before described above our front, he was not idle upon our left 
flank. He established a battery of eight guns upon the river about 
1,500 yards from our main works, protected by some timber and 
broken ground at that point. He also t'jrew up a line of rifle- pits 
connecting this battery with the line above mentioned, thus com- 
pleting the chain and thoroughly enveloping us. The battery just 
described could command our pontoon bridge, almost its entire 
length. It would also cover at a distance ot less ihan six hundred 
yards, any gunboat that might come to our assistance. I had, how- 
ever, being apprised of the establishment of this battery sent dur- 
ing the night, a section of Battery "A'' 1st Tenn. Arty., under 
Captain Beech, to the north side of the Tennessee River, with di- 
rections to Captain Beech to throw u^Tasmall breastwork nearly 
opposite the enemy, partially enfilading his battery and rifle-pits, 
Lt. Col. Thornburg selected the location for this section. As soon 
as the fog lifted, Captain Beech opened upon the enemy with great 
success, preventing him from getting more guns into position or 
using those already m battery on our bridge. Immediately upon 
the heels of the successful sortie upon our right, I ordered CoL 
Doolittle to send out the 14th Colored Infy. to charge the enemy's 
battery, and sent out (500) five hundred men as a support to our 
advanced picket line, between which and the enemy there had 
been heavy skirminhing all the morning. I directed Captain Beech 
to cover the movement with his section, and Captain Nay lor of the 
gunboat '"Stone River'* to move up and engage the battery also. 
In addition to this force. I sent a section of artillery from Fort' No. 
2, to a small earthwork upon our left, with directions to open upon 



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the enemy as soon as Captain Beech should be heard from. It was 
■impossible for the enemy to remain in their works under this gall- 
ing- cross fire, undercover of which Col. Morgan with the 14th U. 
S. C. I. charg-ed in splendid style, captured the battery, made four- 
teen prisoners, and killed and wounded a large number of the 
enemy. They spiked two guns, but were unable to remove them, 
and the enemy rallying and coming- upon them larg-ely reinforced, 
I was obliged to recall them ; they fell back and in good order, bring- 
ing off their prisoners. Our loss was (52) fifty-two in killed and 
wounded. The fire of the artiliery was admirable. I have since 
ascertained that a shell from Captain Reech's guns exploded a ca- 
son, killing- fourteen. The fire from our gunboat "Vi as accurate 
and severe, and the loss of the enem y must have been very great. 
The action of the colored troops under Col Morgan was every- 
thing that could be desired or expected of soldiers, under the 
heaviest fire they exibited no signs of confusion. 

During the 28th, reinforcements arrived rapidly and were as- 
signed postions on the works. There was heavy firing all dav 
along our entire line, but no attempt on the part of the enemy to 
assault our position. About 12 m., I ordered Captain Naylor of 
the gunboat "Stone River" to run the enemy's battery and attack 
their rear. This was done without injury to the gunboat. About 
3 p. m. the U. S. Steamer, "Gen. Thomas," made its appearance, 
and soon after joined the "Stone River." I at once sent orders 
to the boats to engage the enemy's river battery, in which they 
would be assisted by Captain Beech and the section on the south 
bank. On this occasion as on the previous one, the fire of Captain 
Beech's guus was most admirable. He dismounted two of their 
guns and so distracted their aim that their shots at the gunboats 
were v/ild. Under cover of the fire of the land batteries, the gun- 
boats dropped down the river until directly on a line with their 
works, and not exceeding five hundred yards from them, and 
opened fire with their broadside guns. Under the well directed 
fire of the gunboats and land batteries the enemy was compelled 
to abandon their works, a portion retreating to their main lines, 
and a larger number seeking shelter in the willows by the river- 
side. The gunboats, their guns double shotted with canister, were 
turned upon those at the riverside at a distance of not more 
than two hundred yards, and opened fire with terrible effect. 
Many bodies were afterwards found in the river. The enemy's 
loss in this engagement, which did not last to exceed half an hour, 
must have been very severe. The casualities on the^gunbaots, al- 



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were svith me. Hoping- that you will meet rae at Cincinnati, I re- 
main, 

Your obedient servant, 

B. T. Cheatham. 



DEFENSE OF DECATUR 



A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION 



To the History of the War-Gen. C. C. Doolittle's Ac= 
count of the attack of Gen. Hood on 
an Alabama City 

GEN. C. C. DOOLITTLE, late brigadier general U. S. volun- 
teers, brevet major general U. S. A., at the request of 
the Loyal Legion, prepared the following account of his 
defense ol Decatur, Alabama: 

Having been urgedto write an account of the defense of Deca- 
tur, Ala., I have reluctantly consented, although I would prefer 
that some one else would doit. Injustice to the troops engaged, 
however, would seem to require this of me, notwithstanding it ob- 
liges the use of the personal pronoun rather more than I wish. 

In order to a clearer understanding of the importance of that 
defense, and of its bearing on the subsequent campaign of Hood 
against Nashville, it will be well to take a hasty glance at the situ- 
ation subsequent to the fall of Atlanta. Gen. Sherman had beea 
resting his army in and about Atlanta, and Hood was south of At- 
lanta, at Lovejoy's. 

About the 21st of September Hood moved his army to Pal- 
metto Station, where he was visited by Jefferson Davis, and a plan 
of campaign was mapped ont for Hood, who was to move north 
cross the Tennessee river, and move into Tennessee and Ken- 
tucky. 



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In pursuance of tVis plan, Hood moved towards Guuteruvilie, 
^intending- to cross there, or near there, destroy Sherman's com- 
raunications at Stevenson and Bridgeport, to move upon Thomas 
and Schofield, and attempt to rout and capture their army before 
•it could reach Nashville. 

October 22 Hood moved from Gadsdoa with twenty days' ra^ 
tions in h-aversacks and wagons, in the direction of Guntersville 
■on the Tennessee river, and bivouacked that night in the vicinity 
of Bennettsville. Here he learned that Forest was near Jack- 
son, Tenn., and could not reach the middle of that state, as the 
river was too high. He then decided to deflect westward, effect a 
junction with Forest and then cros« the river at Florence. 

Hood says that while the army turned toward Decatur, Ala., 
he ordered a slight demonstration against the town till his forces 
passed safely beyond, and then moved toward Tuscurabia, at 
which place he arrived October 31. 

We come now to the action at Decatur, where Hood's forces 
arrived at 1:30 p. ra., October 2^, 1864. 

Decatur is situated on the south bank of the Tennessee river 
and at this time had been almost depopulated, and the houses with 
few exceptions burned or torn down. 

I was colonel of the 18th Mich. Infty. in command of the post. 
My forces consisted of the 102d Ohio Infty., Col. Wra, Given, com- 
manding; 18th Mich. Infty., Major Em. Hubbard, commanding-; 
a detachment of the 13th Wis. Infty., Captain Blake, commanding-; 
2d Tenn, Cavalry, about 250 men under Lieut. Col. Prosser* 10th 
Ind. Cavalry, about 300 men, under Maj. Thomas G. Williamson- 
Battery A 1st Tenn. Light Artillery, Capt. A. F. Beech, com- 
manding; Battery F 1st Ohio Artillery, Capt. Chas. Cooper, who 
was chief of artillery. Our artillerv numbered seventeen pieces in 
all. Our line of works consisted of two strong forts, connected by 
a line of breastworks from river bank to river bank, nearly one 
mile in extent. 

The country about the fortifications was a pretty, level plain 
clear for about a thousand yards or so to a line of woods, more or 
less dense, surrounding the town. The works looking south and 
west were quite strong, well ditched and protected with abatis- 
g-reat improvements having been made during the summer under 
Gen. R. S. Granger's direction. The flank looking eastward was not 
as strong and would have been dificult to hold against a determined 
attack by a large force. 

We had a large aniou-at of provisions and ainiuuuilioa ia ^Lore 



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which, with the pontoon bridg-e, made it very desirable that the 
place be held ag-ainst the enemy and equally desirable to him that 
he- should capture it. as affording easy access to Alabama and 
Tennessee. 

For some days previous to the 26th we had been watching- the 
movements of Hood's army, as vv'ell as Forest's and Roddy's com- 
mand^,, and scouted the surrounding- country as thoroug-hly as^ 
possible with our small force of cavalry. 

On the morning- of the 26th I sent out two parties of 50 each, 
on the Somerville and Courtland roads. The party on the Somer- 
ville road, which leads out in a easterly direction, met a considera- 
ble force of the enemy about three miles out, and were compelled 
to retire. 

About 200 men of the 18th Mich, and 102d Ohio had g-one up 
the river on the g-unboat Stone River to watch Hood, returning- at 
night. This gunboat rendered good service during the siege. As 
soon as I was advised by my videtts that the enemy was advancing' 
on us, I ordered the different commands to be in readiness, and 
rode out to the advance ^^ost on the Somerville road to ascertain 
the situation. When I found the enemy's column forming into 
line and skirmishers out, I hastened to the camp ot the 2d Tenn. 
cavalry, which regiment I found in line, I directed Lieut. Col. 
Prosser to move into position and hold the enemy in check until I 
could reinforce our line. I returned to headquarters and hurried 
forward a section of Battery A, 1st Tenn. Light Artillery, under 
Capt. Beech, and the 10th Ind. Cavalry, about 300 strong, under 
Maj. Williamson, who had just distributed cavalry arms and am- 
munition. 

This regiment had heretofore acted mostly,as infantry. It was 
now placed on the right of the 2d Tenn. Cavalry and formed the 
line outside of our outer line of rifle-pits. I directed Col. Prosser 
to look well to the river bank and to extend the right so as to meet 
the enemy at all points. Within thirty minutes from the time I 
was first apprised of the approach of the enemy, a section of artil- 
lery was playing into his lines from the small redoubt command- 
ing the Somerville road and vicinity, and he was forced to leave 
the open country and seek shelter in the woods on the river bank, 
which at this point were very thick and extended back from 'the 
river quite a distance. I had placed the picket reserve of the 18th 
Mich. Infty., which was stationed in this redoubt, as a support to 
this section. 

Fort No. 2, which was at the easterly angle of the works, look- 



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ing east and south, was placed m command of Col. Given, of the 
102d Ohio, with all his own command left in camp and a detach- 
ment of the 13lh Wis., about 150 men, under Capt. Blake, who was 
instructed to watch our right flank. Finding that we could hold 
the enemy in check, about twenty minutes after the artillery open- 
ed fire, I ordered the right wing of 29th Mich., a new regiment. 
Col. Thomas Saylor, commanding, which had just arrives) and 
been placed in position behind the breastworks on the left flank, 
to move to the front and occupy the line of rifle-pits on the left of 
the redoubt. This was done in good style for a new regiment, 
under a warm fire from the enemy's battery of small arms. Soon 
after I ordered up the balance of the regiment, directing the Ma- 
jor, with 100 men, to be sent to Fort No. 1, which was located at the 
southwesterly angle of the vvorks. About 4 o'cl(^ck, Capt, Cooper, 
chief of artilier3% was directed to send a section of Battery F, 1st 
Ohio Artillery, to occupy a small earthwork on the left and about 
300 yards to the rear of the redoubt occupied by Battery A, 1st 
Tennessee. He opened on the enemy with twelve pounder Napo- 
leons and soon silenced his battery of five guns. The fight con- 
tinued till dark, the enemy being unable to drive us back an inch, 
uotwithstanding he made several attempts to change our line. I 
withdrew our forces inside cur main works, leaving 100 of the 29th 
Mich, to strengthen the picket line and hold the line of rifle-pits. 
During the engagement the pickets on the line from the redoubt 
to the river on the right remained in their position, and at night the 
picket line vvas intact. 

The enemy's loss in killed and wounded was about 300; ours 
was small. The attack was made by Walthal's division of Stew- 
art's corps, said to be 5,000, and were repulsed by our force of 500 
men, mounted cavalry and a section of artillery, as the 29th Mich, 
and the small detachment of the 18th Mich, was not engaged. I 
am satisfied that the bold front shown the enemy deterred him 
from making a serious charge and saved us a strong position, 
which if held by the enemy would have caused us much trouble and 
loss of life, as this outer line really commanded the weakest flank 
of our works. 

1 learned, when in New Orleans in 1865, from an officer of ar- 
tillery, who was at Decatur, that when they first appeared before 
Decatur they thought our force small, but when they were met so 
boldly with cavalry, they concluded we had been reinforced. 

Col. Prosser rendered great service with his regiment, small 
as it was, and with M-'j. Willian^sor: maintained our l!:ics ia :;• joj 



order during the afternoon. Severaf times MaJ. WilHam son sent 
me word that he was afraid he could not maintain his position. I 
returned word that be must, and he did. 

Capt. Beech is deserving- of great praise for efFective service 
rendered by his battery. He retained his position all the after- 
noon, making sad bavoe in the enemy's ranks. One incident wor- 
thy of note occurred. Three of his drivers were killed at one 
time,, and bi9 men almost quarreled as to who should take their 
places. It was a hot place, as the enemy concentrated his fire on: 
them most ot the time, I state this from personal experience, as 
] felt it necessary to be an the line of our outer works all the after- 
noon, 

T'he enemy endeavored to send in two white flags, but as he kept 
bis men moving, I paid no attention to them. Gen. R. S. Granger^ 
commanding the district, arrived at dark from Huntsville and as- 
sumed general direction of movements. 

The morning of the 27th discovered the enemy still on our 
front,^ and estendimg around us towards the river,, nearly to the 
Moulton road. Reinforcements came in slowly consisting of 250,. 
14tb U. S. Col. infantry under Col. T. J. Morgan; 195 68tb Ind. in- 
fantry, under Lieut. Col. H. J. Espy; about 70 men of the 13th Ind. 
cavalry equipped as infantry, under Capt. Willson; 150 73d Ind, 
infantry, Lieut. Col. Wade, commanding. Nothing of importance 
occurred during the day, with the exception of the driving back of 
the enemy's skirmisbers on our front and right fiank by a detach- 
ment of the 73d Ind. infantry. 

On the 28tb, about 3 a. m., the enemy drove in a portion of our 
pickets from tbe Moulton to the river on our right, nearly half our 
line, and established themselves in gopher holes within 400 yards, 
of our works. I endeavored early in the morning to reesetablish 
our lines, but found the enemy too well protected to move him. 
By direction of Gen. Granger, Capt. W. C. Moore, 18th Mich, in- 
fantry, with about 50 of the 18th Mich and a few from district 
headquarters, clerks and orderlies, moved down the river under 
cover of the bank and formed as skirmishers, then moved on the 
double-quick, driving the enemy out of their boles and captuaring 
115 prisoners. In this they were ably assisted by the 68th Ind. in- 
fantry, a detachment of which regiment was on picket, and many 
prisoners were taken by them. The artillery in the forts helped 
the movement by judicious firing, for which they had been pre- 
pared by explicit instructions. 

About noon, by instruction of Gen. Granger, I ordered CoL 



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Morgan, 14th U. S. Col. infantry, the regiment now numbering 
about 500 men, to charge a batter}', on the viver bank, planted by 
the enemy during the previous night. To assist Col. Morgan in 
his cbarcre, Lieut. Col. Wade with his command was placed in the 
jine of rifle-pits on our left flank, and one piece of battery 1, 1st 
Ohio Light artillery, was posted in the redout, and one in the small 
earthwork on that line, with directions to emplo}' the enemy while 
Col. Morgan moved forward to the battery. 

The charge was most gallantly and successfully made, the 
guns spiked and thrown down the river bank. 

All honor to the colonel and his brave regiment of colored 
troops. Col. H. C. Corbin, now of the regular army, was Lieut. 
Col. of this regiment, and was with them in this action. Our gar- 
rison at this time numbered only about 2,500 men. 

These bold movements had a beneficial affect on the enemy. 
Reinforcements arrived rappidly and were assigned positions in 
the works, giving a total of about 5,000 men. The 3d Mich, in- 
fantry, Col. M. B. Houghton; 4th Mich, infantry, Col. J. H. Hall; 
174th Ohio, Col J. S Jones, were among the later arrivals, and did 
good service in the positions to which they were assigned. 

The morning of the 29th brought with it indications of the 
enemy's leaving, and a reconnoissance by Col. Morgan developed 
the fact that only a strong rear guard remained. About 4 o'clock, 
the enemy was driven out of his last line of rifle-pits, and we re- 
occupied our old picket line and I took possession Df my own head- 
quarters, which I had been obliged to vacate, a shell having passed 
directly through my dining room. 

During the four days Hood was before Decatur, he threw up a 
line of earth works for infantry and artillery, extending from the 
river on our left to the river on our right, fully two miles. He made 
night attacks, keeping our men busy. Our garrison never ex- 
ceeded 5,000 men and nineteen pieces of artillery. I never saw 
troops in better spirits. Through night and day, with loss of 
sleep and hard work, no word of complaint was heard. 

My report made at the time, states that Hood's aggregate was 
about 40,000, with 60 pieces of artillery. He was heard to admit 
a large loss in killed and wounded, and this was afl&rmed by sol- 
diers and citizens. Our entire loss during the siege in killed and 
wounded and prisoners was 113. We captured 130 prisoners, in- 
cluding seven commissioned officers. 

Gen, Hood's "slight demonstration" against Decatur occupied 
him four days. It would appear that he had a great deal of respect 



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for the small force at Decatur, or he would not have taken the 
trouble he did, merely to get his army safely by. A.n army that 
moved with such celerity as his, surely did not need four days tc 
pass a place occupied by as small a force as we had the first day. 
It is true that his experience with Allatoona, had made him cau- 
tious about attacking- a fortified place, but with his whole army at 
hand, he ought not to have feared to push his attack on Decatur,, 
where we had a good pontoon bridge and plenty of food and am- 
munition, all of which he needed. Prisoners stated that they were 
promised their supper in Decatur, the first night of the attack. 

Can we estimate the results of the loss to us at Decatur at 
the time? There were comparatively few troops between Decatur 
and Nashville. Gen. Sherman in his memoirs says that Thomas 
had about 45,000 men at his disposal at this time, as follows : 

At Nashville, about eight or ten thousand, and as many more 
civil employes of the Quartermaster's department, which were 
not suited for the field, but would be most useful in manning the 
excellent forts that already covered Nashville. At Chattanooga, 
he had Gen. Steadman's division, about 5,000 men, besides garri- 
sons for Chattonooga, Bridgeport and Stevenson; at Murfreesboro 
he also had Gen, Rousseau's division, which was full 5,000 strong, 
independent of the necessary garrison for the railroad. At Deca- 
tur and Huntsville, Ala., was the infantry division of Gen. R. S. 
Granger, estimated at 4,000; and near Florence. Ala., watching the 
crossing of the Tennessee, were Gen. Edward Hutch's division of 
cavalry, 4,000, Gen. Croxton's brigade of cavalry, 2,500, and Col. 
Capron's brigade, besides which Gen. J. H. Wilson had collected 
in Nashville about 10,000 dismounted cavalry, for which he was 
rapidly collecting the necessary horses for a mount. 

Van Home, in bis life of Gen. George H. Thomas, differs from 
Gen. Sherman, and thinks the force Gen. Thomas could command 
wholly inadequate for the situation. He says (page 262): "Theo- 
retically, Gen. Thomas had then a large army, embracing the 4th 
corps of the Army of the Cumberland; two divisions of the 6th 
corps. Army of the Tennessee; the 23d corp (the Army of the Ohio), 
a large torce of cavalry, mainly dismounted and widely scattered, 
an indefinite number of raw troops, convalescents belonging to the 
lour corps with Sherman and the local garrison of the Department 
of the Cumberland." The two divisions of the 15th corps were 
due in Nashville early in November, and the speedy coming from 
the north was promised His corps commanders, Maj. Gen. Da- 
vid S S^a'ilf^y; 4th corns, Maj. Gen. .lohn M. Schofield; 23d corps; 



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Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Smith, 16th corps, and Brevet Maj. Gen. Jas. 
H. Wilson, chief of cavalry of the military division. 

In a dispatch to Thomas of October 12, Gen. Sherman said : 
■"Hood's army may be set down at forty thousand of all arms fit for 
duty. He may follow me or turn against you. If you can defend 
the line of the Tennessee in my absence of three months it is all 
I ask." Gen. Grant made it a condition of the march to the sea, 
that sufficient forces should be left with Thomas to enable him to 
defend this line. October 11 Grant telegraphed to Sherman : "If 
you are satisfied the tri p to the sea coast can be made, holding the 
line of the Tennessee firmly, you may make it, destroying all the 
railroads south of Dalton or Chattanooga, as you think best." 

And yet before the 4th and 23d corps had been sent to Thom- 
as, Hood had grasped this line at Florence. Thomas had been in- 
structed by Sherman to hold defensively Nashville, Chattanooga 
and Decatur, and yet he was told "you must unite all your men 
into one army and abandon all minor points if you expect to de- 
feat Hood." 

I quote further (page 264) : The well organized infantry for- 
ces which had been promised to Gen. Thomas embraced about 
32,000 men. The available cavalry largely dismounted and scattered 
in detachments throughout the division, was about 12,000 strong. 
The two divisions of the 6th corps, promised early in November 
in Tennessee, did not arrive at Nashville until the 30th. From 
this cause, and owing to the expiration of the term of service of 
many regiments, and the absence of other regiments that had been 
sent North to vote, his array grew less rather than greater, at a 
time when reinforcements were most needed. The 4th corps ar- 
rived at Chattanooga and was immediately sent by Gen. Thomas to 
Athens, Ala. Hood had then thrown some of his troops access 
the river at Florence. November 5 Schofield arrived at Nashville 
with the advance of his corps. He had been sent in consequence 
of the declatation of Thomas that he was sure that Stanley's force 
was not large enough to drive Hood's whole army back." 

The advance division of the 4th corps (T. J. Woods) did not 
reach Athens, Ala., twelve miles north of Decatur until October 
31 and the 23d corps marched from Resaccaon October 30 to take 
cars for Chattanooga. Had Hood captured Decatur on October 26, 
apparently, it would have been a difficult task to prevent his moving^ 
into Kentucky. To you must be left the decision. If the cap- 
ture of Decatur at this time would have enabled Hood to move 
without much opposition through Tennessee and Kentucky, may 



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we not infer that the defense is entitled to more considertion thaa 
has heretofore been accorded it? 

If, on the other hand, Gen. Thomas bad been able, without the 
help of the 4th and 23d corps to dispose of Hood, then the defense 
of Decatur was only one of the many occurrances of the ivar^ 
where the troops had merely done their duty, and the result had 
no especial influence upon the subsequent campaign. 



Reminiscences and Personal 
Experiences 



JAMES W, WELLS 



As a Volunaeer Soldier 

ON THE 9th day of August 1862, I enlisted in Co. B, 102d 
Reg-iraent, O. V. I., for three years, or during the war. 
The regiment went into camp at Mansfield, O., four miles 
from the city of- Mansfield, O., on the 17th day of August, 1862. 
On the 4th of September the; organization started by rail for Cin- 
cinnati on a hurry order, it being reported that an invasion of the 
State of Ohio was threatened by the rebels under command of 
Gen. John Morgan. 

On arriving at Cincinuati. way in the night, we were marched 
through the streets down to the ferryboat landing, and crossed 
the Ohio river into Covington, Ky., where we were quartered in a 
vacant three-story building, called the Madison House, andont he 
6th day of September we were mustered into the U. S. Army, 
numbering 1,060 men, rank and file. 

Wm. Given, a judge of common pleas court-at Wooster, O., 
was our colonel, and he stuck to the regiment until it was mus- 
tered out in 1865. John McNaul was captain of Co. B, but he re- 
sighed soon after entering the service. 

Here at Covington, we received our equipment, such as uni- 
forms, blankets and firearms. The guns we received were the 




JAMES W. WELLS. 



R FCOR O fi^'v^t^' ^o- 2' ^^2d O. V. I.; enJisted 

Aug. 9, 18()2; age 21; 3 years; captured 

Sept. 24. 1864, in action at Athens, Ala., paroled ; 

mustered out to date June 30, 1865, mustered out with com- 
pany. 



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Austrian rifle, a mnz/Ac loader of 58 caliber, aud they were very de- 
fective in construction, so that they could not be relied on to dis- 
charge when-the trigger was pulled. With this equipment we were 
hurried out among the hills that surround Covington on the south 
about four miles from the city, where we lay in line of battle (?) 
two weeks, ostensibly to scare the rebs back from the Ohio river. 
Had the rebs seen fit to have made an attack, we would have been 
in a sorry plight, with defective guns, undrilled, undicipliued, but 
as no attack was made during that time, it is possible that we 
filled the bill well. 

After two weeks of such experience we were embarked aboard 
transporti> and conveyed down the Ohio river to Louisville, Ky., to 
make very much the same kind of a show. This was the time the 
rebel Gen. Bragg had driven the Federal forces, under Gen. Buell, 
north through Kentucky. Here our defective guns were turned 
over to the arsenal for repairs, and for two more weeks we were 
left without guns, but it made no difference, we had to soldier all 
the same. In order to keep up the appearance of a defense, we 
were marched out into the entrenchments every morning about 
two o'clock without guns, there to remain until ten o'clock each 
day for two weeks. 

On the 5th daj^ of October, 1862, we marched out of Louisville, 
going towards Shelby ville, bringing up the rear of the army, follow- 
ing on a forced march, reaching Shelby ville, about 25 miles distaai, 
in one day in very hot weather all tired out. A short rest was al- 
io tved; and here the first foraging was done by members of the 
regiment; a couple of the boys (Co. L) broke through the guard 
line and killed a small hog, bringing it into camp on a stretcher 
triumphantly. Our Colonel was then new at the business of sol- 
diering, and had n't yet caught on to his job, and for this offense, 
he had these two boys marched at the point of bayonets in the 
handsof guards, with the martial band playing the "rogue's march" 
before them, and a large placard pinned on each of their backs dis- 
playing the word "THIEF" in large letters. A year or two later 
our Colohel would not have noticed such a small matter at all — 
that's after he had learned how to soldier. 

After a short rest the march was again taken up with more 
vigor than before, and we marched until late at night, in fact, no 
halt was ordered, but there were so many stragglers fallen by 
the way, that on entering B^rankfort next morning about sunsise, 
there were osily seven men in Co. B, and about the same number 
proportioned in each of the other companies of the regiment. 



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Those who stood the marc'fi and were in the ranks on enterinj.^ 
Frankfort, had the satisfaction of seeing- the rebs crossing- the 
bridg-e in their flight out of town. 

Starting- ag-ain as soon as the stragglers had come up, our 
march continued in a southeasterly direction through Harrods- 
burg-, Danville, and on to Crab Orchard. Along- this route we could 
not have been more than a few hours behind the rebels, as skir- 
mishing- v/as kept up continuousl v, and we frequently heard the 
report of g-uns as if in battle; and occasionally we passed newly- 
made g"raves on the roadside; and the dead horses decomposing in- 
the hot sun made us hold our noses as we passed by. 

From Crab Orchard our march was continued in a southwest- 
erly course to Bowling- Green, where' we arrived on the 25th day of 
October, 1862. This long- march of twenty days almost continu- 
ous marching- in very hot weather, set bard on the troops that 
were undici^"»liaed, and as yet unused to military life. Up to this- 
time our reg^iment had been but little drilled on the company drill, 
and there had been no opportunity for battallion drill, and during 
the two months we were at Bowiing^ Green, drilling was part of 
the daily program. On December 25, the regiment was ordered 
to Clarksville, Tenn., which is on the Cumberland river 60 miles 
below Nashville, in a southwesterly direction. 

On this march the writer could noi accompany the regiment, 
having taken a severe cold, resulting in quinsy and lumbago, and 
was left at Bowling Green, along with a few others that were indis- 
posed, in care of Dr. Mitchell. This was mv first indisposition 
since leaving home, and after the regiment had started, I sought 
shelter in the private home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Atkinson, 
rather than go to a hospital. Mr. A, was a shiftless blacksmith,, 
but his wife was a genuine lady, and proved to be a good nurse and 
one of the best hearted persons I ever saw. I bargained with her 
to take care of me during my illness, promising to pay liberally 
for the service, and in about four weeks I was able t©go forward 
to the regiment. 

Dr. Mitchell, the assistant Surgeon of the regiment, after learn- 
ing where I was located, called to see me, and after looking me 
over, and having a chat with Mrs. A, was about to depart, when I 
askfcd him if he hadn't come to doctor me. He replied, "Oh, yes, 
but you have found a better doctor than I am. I need not leave 
3CU any medicine." 

Following up and rejoining the regiment. I took my accus- 
tomed place in Co. B, mess No. 6, in tbe tent nearest the cook 



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shanty, but was privileg-ed to remain in carnp only a few days, be- 
cause, from the exposure in the inclement weather during- the 
trip, I suffered a relapse, and was compelled to g-o to the hosptial, 
where I spent about tour we^ks. This hospital was located in a 
two-story brick build inj^, formally a female seminary, and the cot 
a^sig-ned for mv company was on the second floor in a room along- 
with twelve other cots whose occupants were as sick as I was, and 
some was even worse. Here I suffered indescribable ag-onies on 
account of the lack of attention in the way of food and bedclothing-. 
Rheumatism set in and my bones achisd beyond anything- I had 
ever experience. 

While I was thus tormented, Dr. Milchell, in making- his usu- 
al rounds among- tne patients, prescribed some remedies in my 
case, and I undertook to tell him how much I was suffering and how 
bad I really was— complaining that I couldn't lie in bed any longer, 
neither could Isit up; he replied, "Well, then, you'll just have to 
'KOOST, ' "and with a sneer he turned and walked oft. [query.] If 
Jim Wells "roosted," did that make him a "rooster?'" [historian.] 
With only one attendant, or nurse, to care for these thirteen 
sick people, where all things necessary, or such as we g-ot had to 
be carried up or down two long flights of stairs, by night as well 
as by day, and he alone to prepare food for the sick wards, the 
reader may consider the desirability of a hospital experience. 

When I again rejoined the regiment, I was detailed to carry 
the mail to and from the regiment to the postoffice in town, being 
a light duty suitable to my condition as a convalescent, which ser- 
vice exempted me from picket and police duty for several months. 
Clarksville was an important shipping point on the Cumber- 
land river that had to be garrisoned, and our regiment remained 
there nine months. 

About the first of October, 1863, we received orders to pro- 
ceed to the front, the main army then being at Chattanooga and 
along the Tennessee river. Starting, we marched to Nashville 
60 miles, and after a rest, embarked by rail south as far as Elk 
River bridge, where companies E, H, K, G and B, forming the 
left wing of the regiment, was stationed, and the right wing was 
dispatched farther at Cowan Station. After a few weeks we were 
returned to Nashville by rail, where we remained for seven months. 
Here Co. B was detailed at the military prison, that being the State 
Penitentiary building, where were confined some rebel prisoners 
of war, and a lot of Federal prisoners under sentence for various 
crimes. 



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Maj. John F. Horner of the I8lh Mich. V. I. was tfien com" 
mandant of the prison; (afterward he was a neighbor of mine irs 
Kansas on adjoining' farms, while I was a pioneer, along- in the late 
•60's.) 

The writer was detailed for duty as chief clerk of the prison, 
and later Maj. Horner was made provost martial of Nashville, and 
Maj. J. D. Elliott, of the 102d Regt. succeeded as commandant of 
the military prison. And thus the winter of 1863-4 passed 

The first of January is memorable as the coldest day of all 
our terra of soldiering; on that morninir the thermometer regis- 
tered four degrees below zero. The men in the regiment were 
encamped in tents all winter long, and frequently the murcury 
would go down to zero. I was fortunate in having a good, warm 
place to sleep in a building, even if it were in the "penitentiary." 

Although our regiment had been assigned to duty right at the 
base of large supplies, where there was no excuse for us to re- 
ceive other than full rations, yet we were pinched short in the 
quantity allowed us by the Army Regulations, by the dishonesty 
ofj our thieving Quartermaster, 1st Lieut. D. C. Connell. from 
Mansfield, Ohio. No amount of complaint of shortage of rations 
to said Quartermaster availed; so the Sergeant in charge, of Co. 
B's commissary stores weighed every issue of the rations received 
for several weeks, and on comparing their account with the Ar- 
my Regulations he definitely determined how much the shortage 
amounted to, and thus was able to make a showing to the Colonel, 
that warranted the arre?it of said Quartermaster for embezzle- 
ment, and on charges being preferred against him, he was dis- 
honorably dismissed the service by a court martial. Thus we 
^vitnessed this thief, who had been stealing the food for months 
that we were entitled to, allowed to go home without any further 
punish mentment than that of being disgraced, when by rights 
lie should have been sentenced to a long term in the penitentiary 
at hard labor. 

In the Spring of 1864, our regiment was again ordered to the 
front, and we again embarked by rail, proceeding this time as far 
south as Tullahoma. Tenn., where we were stationed for two 
months, then we marched south to Stevenson and Bellefonte, Ala. 
Here the reginent was again divided, the right wing remaining at 
Bellefonte, and the left proceeding further down the river to Dodd- 
souville, Ala., where onr duty was to patrol the Tennessee river. 
In about two months we were sent still further down the river, 
the right wing stationed at Huntsville and the left at Decatur. 



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And so the summer grassed without any event of much importance 
occurring" to the reg'iment. 

On the 24th day of September, we got busy, the rebel Gen. 
N. B. Forest attacked the L. & N. R. R, with a large force of cav- 
alry up in Tennessee, and succeeded in capturing- every station 
and bl-ickhouse along that road south of Franklin, taking the garri- 
sons stationed in them prisoners. On the day last above named 
orders were received by the commandant of the post at Decatur, 
to send the 102d to defend Athens and proceed carefully. It so 
happened that there was only 400 of the regiment fit for duty, it 
being at a time when the fever and ague prevailed, and 250 of the 
men were "hors de combat." The commandant of the post or- 
dered 150 men of the 102d and 200 of the 18th Mich, to pro- 
ceed to Athens, under command of Lieat. Col. Elliott, of the 102d5 
to reinforce the fort and garrison there, Athens being 15 miles 
north of Decatur. At one o'clock the long roll sounded and the 
detail of men fell in with two days' rations and 60 rounds of ammu- 
nition. Starting off in a drizzling rain, we marched to the pontoon 
bridge, crDssed to the other side of the river, and marched thro 
woods some distance to the railroad track, where we awaited the 
arrival of a train to take us north. Bv the time we got fairly start- 
ed, it began raining hard, and the night was dark as could be, the 
rain kept up till daybreak, while we stood under the trees of the 
tall tim ber for shelter waiting for the train that did not arrive until 
it was fairly light. We climbed aboard the cattle cars and got 
started. After proceeding about three or four miles, the train 
had to come to a halt, because the railroad track had been torn up 
by the rebs, the ties put on piles and fired with the iron rails piled 
on top of the fire. We then alighted from the train and deployed 
as skirmishers in two plattoons, the 102d on one- side of the R. 
R. and the 18th Mich, on the other, with the Lieut. Col. in com* 
mand walking on the track. The burning ties made a dense 
smoke, and we had not proceeded far when a squad of rebs, who 
were secreted in the bushes fired a volley into our ranks and re- 
treated on therun. This was repeated frequently for several miles, 
until we hove in sight of the village of Athens, where we could see 
an enormous crowd of people moving about in the streets, which 
proved to be Forest's cavalry, some four thousand strong. 

Had a retreat been ordered at the time we observed that we 
were so much outnumbered, there is no doubt that we could have 
escaped among the dense underbrush and thus have avoided cap- 
ture. As w-e advanced nearer the fort, we were compelled to take 



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refuge in the timber to our left, where we were ordered to load 
and fire at will, until the enemy had advanced so closeh' that we 
were ordered to lie down and continue the firing-. Here Dan 
Smalley, of Co. B, while lying- next to me but one, was shot thro 
the neck just under the ears; he fell forward on his face and died 
without a strug-gle. We hug^g-ed the g-round until the enemy was 
within 100 feet of us, when the order was given to "rise sip, fix 
bayonets and charge." When this movement was executed, the 
rebs took to their heels, and we were so close to them that when 
the scramble was at its height some of our men were mixed with 
the rebs, and at this juncture Col. Elliott received a mortal wound 
and fell. The rebs ran across the railroad track, where 
the road was elevated by a fill of several feet, then turning their 
guns on us while they were thus protected, poured a dead!}' fire 
into our ranks. We were now in a peach orchard close by the 
thick timber, and other rebs approached us from the rear, and we 
found there was nothing left for us to do but surrender; so the 
Captain who then succeded to the command, asked one of our men 
who happened to be wearing a white shirt, "to jerk off that shirt," 
and the Captain put it on the point of his sword and waved it as a 
flag of truce. 

The motley horde of rebels clad in all colors from butternut 
to navy blue, now rushed upon us with their guns in hand and be- 
gan to rob us of our rations, clothing, money and everything else 
we had that they wanted, until we were a sorry looking set of sol- 
diers. These rebs were bad off for food and they needed all the 
clothing they could get; for many of them were clad in rags. About 
half of us were compelled to take off our good blue pants and ex- 
change with a reb for a ragged gray or butternut colored pair; 
the confusion of that moment exceeded anything I ever ex- 
perienced even to this day. Just before giving over my watch, I 
noticed the time of day to be high noon; we had been under fire 
practically all the forenoon, and I here record it that this was the 
shortest half day I ever lived. I have often been asked if I felt 
scared during the battle. I will say that at no moment did I real- 
ize fear. Ever}' moveinent executed in obedience to orders was 
made boldly and without any hesitancy; I really felt myself im- 
mured against rebel bullets, but expected that others would be hit 
by them, and so far as I observed, my comrades seemed to feel just 
as I did concerning fear, and did not observe the slightest move- 
ment that indicated cowardice. 

We had lost heavily in killed and wounded, but had reason to 



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believe that we had killed many more rebs than our full number 
eng-ag-ed; and as evidense of this the rebs would not believe that-our 
battaliion were all the yanks that were in the eng-ag-ement, so they 
turned the cannon in the fort in the direction we had come from, 
and vigorausly shelled the woods for an hour after we surrendered. 

After we had been completely "skinned" of everything of any 
value to them, the rebel Gen. Buford came in sight on horseback, 
giving- loud orders, "These prisonersmust not be deprived of any 
of their personal property." We were marched to the streets of 
Athens, and were counted and recounted several times over, and 
then they formed us into plattoons of four, and left us standing in 
the street under heavy guard until late in the afternoon. About 
sundown we were marched south under a heavy guard, the rebel 
officers loudly proclaiming that we must hurry until we reached 
the Tennesee, in order to avoid recapture by the Federal troops. 
The march continued until late at night, tvhen there appeared so 
many stragglers that a short halt was ordered, and duringf the 
halt two Yankee crackers, (hardtack) of the lot they had captured 
at Athens, were passed around to each man. We had not had a 
chance to eat anything since leaving Decatur the previous night, 
and as we had been robed of our rations when we surrendered, 
these light refrehments were most timely. 

Early the next morning we were again on the march, an oc- 
casional report of a rifle was heard in the rear, and after such a 
report, a story came forward among the cavalry guards, "that an- 
other d — d Yankee had to be shot because he couldn't keep up." 

We reached the river at a point called the "Shoals," a shallow 
place that enabled us to be ferried across in small boats that could 
be pushed along by the aid of poles. As soon as a few landed, a 
detail of prisoners was made and sent undt-r a heavy guard to a 
nearby cornfield, to carry corn to the prisoners as rations for 
their subsistence. The corn was too hard to toast, and not ripe 
enough to parch, but we ate it all the same, for we didn't have 
anything else to eat. After being regaled with this "hearty break- 
fast," we looked anxiously about for the preparations for the mak- 
out of our paroles that had been so copiously promised us — alas, 
blighted hopes ! As soon as the last boat load of prisoners was 
landed, we were again put on the march with as much energy as 
before, not halting again until night, and for refreshments some 
of the prisoners were allowed to leave ranks to get into the corn- 
fields, and throw corn over the fence into the road, which was 
eagerly picked up and eaten by the famished and tired prisoners. 



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without coming- to a halt. So for three days we were feept on the 
go almost continuously day and night until reaching Cherokee 
Station, on the railroad between Tuscumbia and Corinth. Here 
we remained for three days, apparently awaiting the arrival of a 
train to convey us further south. 

During ourstay at C'jerokee Station, our oflScers were separatedi 
from us and sent further south, but afterwards were paroled and 
sent north, and later they rejoined their regiments sometine dur- 
ing the winter. 

At last the long expected train arrived, and we boarded the 
dilapidated cattle cars, going west to Corinth, thence south {>h the 
Mobile and Ohio R. R. The train \\as run recklessly, without 
any headlight on the engine at night, and sometimes going at 
lightning speed. After passing Okalona about daybreak, and 
while going down a l9ng grade at break-neck speed, a small bridge 
was smashed, which caused adisastrous wreck. The momentum 
forced the engine and first four cars across the stream into a shape- 
less heap, the fifth car in which the writer rode, was thrown off 
the iron rails by the concussion, and it svent jumping along on the 
ties until it reached the abyss, and then it plunged into it; the car 
when it stopped stood at an angle of forty-five degrees. The bot- 
tom of this car was made of two inch planks laid crossways, and 
not nailed down, and when it was so suddenly sto^tped, the occu- 
pants found themselves at the bottom of the ditch in the front end 
ot the car, covered with the loose planks of the floor. On emerg- 
ing from the wreck, the writer witnessed a deplorable state of af- 
tairs, and heard the most heart-rending groans and cries for help 
from the maimed and dying victims. Soon both rebs and yanks 
were making frantic efforts to release the unfortunate sufferers, 
making no distinction as to "previoun conditios of servitude." 
There were several killed and a good many maimed in this wreck, 
but I could not learn how many. After the excitement had quieted 
down, the guards surrounded the prisoners and marched them 
back to Okolona, there to await repairs to the road, and for anoth- 
er train to transport us on further. 

The next incident I will relate, occurred at a small station 
south of Okolona, where the train stopped for water. A very old 
man, but apparently well-to-do planter approached the train, and 
extending both his hands to the guards in the car I was in, asked 
them to help him into the car, so he could get a good look at the 
Yankees. He seemed to be well acquainted with the guards, as 
hev familiarly called him "Uucle Harn." After he had sluug 



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■some inBulting- remarlv's at the prlso-neis, one of fhe guards said to 
,!him, "Uncle Hard, you are g-etting: quite old; how old are you?" 
He replied, "I am 95, but I want to live long- enough to kill one 
Yankee, and then I am ready to die." You bet we kept our eyes 
peeled on that old reb until h€ was out of sight. This shows the 
venom harbored in the hearts of those old rebs against Yankees, 

We arrived at Meridian, Miss., about 10 p. m., and it was rain- 
ing. The train halted before reaching the station, and we alight- 
ed and marched through the mud and water to the stockade a 
quarter of a mile off. This stockade was a small pen and crowd- 
incr us into it there was no room to work our elbows — not room 
enough for anyone to lie down without danger of otl)ers standing 
•on top of them, and the mud and slush was ankle deep all over the 
ground floor. It rained as it only does dowu south, and toward 
morning the weather got cold adding much to our discomfort. 
This was probably the most miserably unccniifortable night we 
experienced as prisoners of ivar. Next morning we were put 
aboard the train going east from Meridian, and about noon we 
crossed the Tombigbee river on a ferry-boat, and thence to Selma, 
Ala. Here we took a steamboat down the river ten miles to Caha- 
ba, Ala., our destination. Arriving about sunrise, we landed and 
marched to the streets of the village. We were taken in squads 
of 50 at a time; under guard to the office of the commandant of the 
prison, where the rules of the prison and the prison regulations 
were read to us and a sound lecture was delivered by the com- 
mandant, advising us that it was his duty as an officer in charge 
to keep us so there would be no possible chance of escape, and in 
order to make sure of it he required of us to turnover to him any 
and all valuables without exception. That he would not allow any- 
thing of value to be taken into the prison, whereby some unworthy 
o-uard might be bribed and allow an escape, and he ordered the 
guards to search thoroughly every man for valuables, and in this 
performance each man had to strip to complete nakedness, and 
and allow his ragged clothing to be gone through. When this lot 
had been gone through, others were brought up and the snme old 
lecture and search had to be submitted to until all were • rved 
alike, and then along towards evening we were urshered iniu he 
prison pen, it being on the 5tli day of October, 1864. 

The prison was located on the bank of the Alabama river close 
by the water, in the edge of the town of Cahaba, which was once 
the capital of the state. The building was an old brick cotton 
shed, with a shingle roof over about one-half of it, with the ground 



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for a fl(,nr, and covering' a space about 200x200 feet. A scratcb inr 
the g-round ten feet from the wall all around the inside of the build- 
ing indicated the "dead-line," about which we heard so much sai(J 
in the rules of the prison, and in the lectures alluded to above^ 
and were cautioned that k would be at tbe risk of life for anyone 
to step over the "dead-line" under any circumstances, as the 
lEruards had been instructed io fire upon all tre-pnssers, (an injunc- 
tion re]i£;:iously adhered to, as witnessed by us during- tbe next 
several months). Inside the building bunks, made on the plan of 
shelves over each other. They were about two and a half feet 
apart between floors and five shelves high, so that the men could 
pack themselves in crossv/ays. Of these bunks, there were enough 
to accommodate the 800 old prisoners that were already in at the 
time of our arrival, but when our partv, augmented by o'her squads^ 
captured like us, so that it numbered fully 800, about all had to 
find lodging on the ground. On the outside, but adjoining the 
building, there was a stockade enclosing 50x200 feet, which was 
used as a place to cook our food. This stockade was made by 
planting tbe trunks of tree> on end in a ditch, allowing them to 
extend above the ground about fifteen feet, making a formidable 
fence, and a platform about two feet wide was built on the outside 
some two feet from tbe top of tbe fense, on which the guards 
walked their beats, and could look over into the enclosure all the 
time they were on duty. 

The only redeeming feature about this prison was that it was 
provided with good wholesome water that ran in an open ditch from 
an artesian well not far distant, and on entering the prison pen it 
w-as conducted through it in a large wooden trough, and thence 
through to the privy sewer emptying into the river. 

It will be remembered that we entered the prison ragged and 
scantily clad, and entirely without blankets orbed clothes of anv 
kind, and were not allowed fire, except a little to do the cooking and 
sometimes were deprived of fire altogether: and, although it was 
in the "sunny south,"- the nights got cold enough during part of 
the winter to freeze ice 3^ to >^ at inch thick on the water that ran 
t irothe prison, causing intense suffering among the men. Along in 
February, some blankets were sent by the Christian Commission 
in the North, through Gen. Washburn, stationed at Memphis, to 
the prisoners and a few of them reached us, enough to allow one 
blanket to cover four men, a great relief to suffering humanity. 

On our first entrance into the prison, being about 800 in num- 
1 er, we were counted off into companies 100 and each corapan}^ 



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was divided into ten Toesses olf teii men to eacli mess. One man 
of each company was chosen as a "boss'' in charge, designated as 
"Serg-eant, and this Sergeant appointed one man in each mess as a 
boss, designated as Corporal. I was chosen as Sergt. of Co.F, and it 
became my duty to represent said company at tbetimeof drawing- 
rations, and to have a general supervision over the affairs of the 
company, so when theitime cameto draw rations, repair to a corner 
of the building- where the supplies were kept stored, and shoulder 
a sack of corn meal, or whatever else was issued, and carry it to a 
location designated as his company's hear'quarters, where the ten 
Corporals, each representing a mess would gather around and re- 
ceive the proportion of rations for his mess. The Serjj-eant would 
■stand along beside the sack of meal, dishing it out in an old tin can 
one measureful to each Corporal all around until the sack was 
emptied. All sorts of receptacles to hold their portion of the meal 
were put to use — some would take off a coat and spread it on the 
ground to receive it, another a pair of pants legs to hold his share, 
■in their utter destitution, anything would do to hold the pittance 
of corn meak We were hardnp for something- to cook the meal in 
and for most of the time corn meal was all the rations we got, and 
that was frequently so musty and sour as to be unfit for food, but 
it was such as we got, and no grumbling, or the chances were that 
we wouldn't get any. For several weeks the proportion of cooking- 
utensils obtainable, were one skillet to thirty men, or three messes. 
The skillets were a motly lot of cast iron pots and ovens, of all 
sizes and shapes, but they were all dubbed skillets. A skillet 
would be filled half full ot water and a pinch of salt and thickened 
with the corn meal stirred into it, or cooked until it became dry 
and then eaten as pone. Probably once a week, or at indefinite 
periods, there was issued raw beef, very poor and blue. It was 
divided among the men in companies and messes. This was done 
by the Sergeant, first cutting it into small pieces, then separating- 
it into ten piles of equal size. He then asked one of his Corporals 
to turn his back so that he couldn't see the piles of meat, and point 
ing- to a pile, ask, "whose pile is this?" the answer "mess No. 1 " 
and so all around until all the ten piles were disposed of. We had 
no cups, knives, forks or plates, but we whittled spoons out of the 
boards of which the bunks were made, and when a skilletful of 
mush was cooked, the ten men of a mess would gather around it 
and each dip into it with his wooden spoon until the mush all dis- 
appeared. The men drank from the water trough like horses or 
dipped up the water with their hends. 



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At eight o'clock every nig-hf all talking' among- the prisoner®; 
was discontinued by orders of the g^uards, and the only noises- 
heard would be ibe snoring of the sleepers, interspersed bv the 
loud cries of the g^uards walking- on their beats on the dead-linev 
calling out every half hour, beginning with guard on post No. I, as- 
follows : "Corporal of the guard, post No. I, eight o'clock and all 
is well," and in turn be repeated by guard No. 2, then 3, and so 
on until it went all around among the guardson duty, as evidence 
tdat they were awake and on the alert. In half an hour this was 
repeated, the only change being to call it "half past eight o'clock," 
and kadi up every half hour until morning. Lights were main- 
tained by the guards burning pine knots at the intersections of 
their beats on ibe dead-line, the fires being about 50 feet apart. 

The guards about the prison were composed of the meanest 
grade of soldiers, all being either old men over 60, or young boy& 
iioder 16, considered unfit for active service in the field, both class- 
es being ambitious to have the credit of killing at least one Yankee. 
Thus we existed for months, one day's experience not differing 
naterially from another, and the monontomy became intense, for 
we were deprived of all communication from the outside, and all 
reading matter whatsoever. The only diversion we bad was the 
(:aily war with the vermin that infested our bodies. This killing 
ot "graybacks"(lice) was as essetial to our comfort as the eating ot 
fiiod. These body lice swarmed over us so persistently that it 
was necessary once, at least every day, to strip ourselves of our 
riigged clothing and pick them off. They seemed to breed in the 
saady ground floor of the prison. 

Late in the month of February the monotony was broken one 
3i ght by an unsuccessful attempt at mutiny by a few of the pris- 
oners, the leader in the conspirators being a commissioneed offi- 
cf r, a Major of an Indiana regiment, playing "in cog" as a private 
junong the prisoners, (with the secret object of distingishing him- 
self). Accordingly, with a squad of prisoners of his own selec- 
tion, they stationed themselves, two by each sentinel prepared 
^vi1h a blanket to throw over the head of the guard, all at a given 
signal, and al the same moment, and then by wrenching the gun 
f rom him, make him exchange clothes with one of the conspirators, 
aUer which they confined the captured guards as their prisoners 
m the privy. Then the conspirators wearing the uniform of the 
g iiird, each with gun in hand, awaiting in disguise on the several 
brats for the next relief to come on duty and in turn exchange plac- 
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and in like manner ca- ' re more guards; but unfortunately for the 
conspirators, the 1^-! guard of the relief detected the fraud and 
showed fight whei, LUey attempted to take his gun, and after a 
struggle, he escaped to the rebel guards camped outside and gave 
the alarm, and at once there was a great commotion. 

In a twinkling the garrison outside placed two cannon loaded 
with powder and chains at the large entrance door of the prison, 
and demanded a surrender, threatening to fire into the helpless 
crowd, unless the ring-leaders were brought out at once for pun- 
ishment. A compliance to such a demand was an impossibility, 
because the guilty conspirators mingled with the others who were 
innocent, and they could not be found or identified on short notice* 
All the next day the rebel officers and guards took heroic measures 
to apprehend the- guilty conspirators, by crowding all the prisor- 
ers over close to one side of the pen, with guns and bayonets, and 
caused them to strip to entire nakedness, then hold their cloths in 
their hands raised above their heads, and walk singly between two 
fixed bayonets in the hands of guards, so they could be searched 
for a wound the escaping guard claimed he had inflicted on one of 
the conspirators in the struggle the night before, and as evidence 
he boastingly exhibited blood on his bayonet. This performance 
was repeated three different times during the day, and last- 
e d until late in the .evening, but the effort was futile, because 
the wound, although made by the guard as he claimed he had done, 
was made in the hand of the man he wounded, and in carrying his 
clothes above his head, he had managed to keep the sore covered 
up, and he was not detected. The nest move to compel the iden- 
tification of the ring-leaders of the conspiracy, was to inflict pun- 
ishment by means of starvation, and tor the next three days, not a 
morsel of food was allowed to enter the pen. Even this treatment 
brought no results. The commandant then offered a bonus of lib- 
erty to any one that would point out the guilty ones, promising to 
send the informant north thro the lines, a free man for the favor. 

At this offer, two young fellows from a Pensylvania regiment 
"peached," and they, accompanied by an officer and a heavy 
guard, went through the crowd and pointed out the Major and 
eight others, as of the guilty conspirators. The boys that peached 
never returned to the pen, and they were afraid to go north, so 
they were turned loose, preterring to desert the Federal army, 
and have a good time outside. The accused nine men were taken 
to the negro jail up town, and there confined in a dungeon 6x8 
feet, so small that only six of them could lie down at one time, where 



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they cverp kept until' the pri'soti'ers were ail sent to "Vic&sburR^ sisr. 
weeks afterwards, and during- this time they were nearly starved^ 

Soon after this e'^capade, when things bad settled back intc 
the old ruts, the n^onotony of prison life was again disturbed; this- 
time by the flood of water that inundated the whole town except 
two blocks. The water covered the pen completely from three' 
inches to three feet. During- these five days a meag-er supply of 
jkard tack were issued as rations. It was at this time that the cli- 
max of our misery was reached. There were only bunks enoug-b 
for 800 men to lie down in, but the number of prisoners in the pen- 
by this time was fully 3,000, and many had to roost on the loose- 
boards of the bunks. 

The exodus from Cahaba prison beg-an on the Sth day of 
March, 1865, one thousand starting each day. The writer was- 
with the last lot leaving- the prison, on the 13th. We went by boat 
to Selma^ 12 railed, distant, thence by rail to Jackson, Miss. The 
railroad having been destroyed west of Jackson, we had to marcb 
from thence to tbe parole camp near Vicksburg-, the distance be- 
ing 35 miles, bat on account of the weakened condition of the pris- 
oners, the trip took several days. While we lay in this camp, sev- 
eral of the most important events of the war occurred. Gen, 
Sherman was on bis famous "march to the sea;" Gen. Lee surren- 
dered, and president Lincoln was aesassinated. 

A call was made for two men that were handy with a pen, to 
volunteer to assist in making- out the lists, giving- name, company, 
and regiment of each prisoner, so that they could be systematic- 
ally raleased, and the writer and Hascal M. Cole of the 18th Mich., 
stepped forward, willing- to assist in expediting- the work, so as to 
get back into God's countr}' as soon as possible. This task oscu- 
pied three days of arduous work, but it was cheerfully performed. 
On completing the lists, we were marched to the river landing at 
Vicksburg and embarked on the ill-fated steamer Sultana. The 
saddest affair of all was yet to come; for this steamer, laden with 
1,966 ex-prisoners of war and 70 citizen passengers, when seven 
miles above Memphis, at 2 o'clock on the morning of April 27, 1865, 
without warning was wrecked. A copy of the lists being desired, the 
writer and his assistant were detailed for this duty, and prom- 
ised transportation on the next boat going up the river, and thus es- 
caped the disaster. On completing- the task, w-e were given our 
release as prisoners of war unconditionally. On my return to the 
regiment, I was lionized aa^a hero, and given quite an ovation. 
Col. Given, on 'earning of my arrival, sent for me and requested 



ca n-arratlon ©r t'b« •whole experience, which 1 outlitied to him in de- 
tail, and I was required to repeat the story so often to different 
^groups of the regiment, that it became an old, old story to me. 

The news of the disaster Vv'hich had befallen the Sultana, was 
.at once given wide publicity throug-h the northern papers, accom- 
panied by a complete list of ex-prisoners embarked at Vicksburg-^ 
and also a list of those rescued at Memphis. My name appeared 
among- the former, but not among the later, and as a matter of 
course, I was considered lost, and was mourned as one dead by 
my relatives for several days. 

I passed an incident in that prison experience that concerns 
two members of Co. B and myself. A few weeks after we were 
domiciled in our rebel home (?) at Cahaba, Ala., I think it was in 
the month of November, a rebel officer came into the prison call- 
ing for all the sick and convalescent to fall into line in plattoons of 
■fours, to be-sent through the lines north to be exchanged. At this 
call about 300 sick ones got a move on and fell in. Then he called 
for one man in good health to volunteer and fall in line with each 
plattoon of tour, to act as nurse, to take care of the sick ones on 
the trip. At' this last call I crow^ied myself into the line, expect- 
ing to go, and while standing in line it so happened that Wm. Pit- 
tinger and Oscar (Shifty) Swiueford, of Co. B, were among the 
sick ones, and while the rebel officer was engaged in counting how 
many were to go, I had my doubts of the sincerity of these rebs 
sending the sick men north at this time, and realizing the fact that 
I didn't like to nurse sick people, I revised my purpose of going 
and jumped out of the ranks and allowed some one else to take my 
place. I afterwards found reason to felicitatate myself on my de- 
cision. After the count was made, they started and we heard no 
more of them until we reached parole camp. To our surprise, the 
two members of Co. B came into parole camp from the Anderson- 
ville, Ga., prison. They were still convalescent, aud had been al- 
mos\ starved. They looked as though they were nothing but skin 
anp bones — a piteous sight indeed for us to behold. 

Alter my return to the regiment at Decatur, I was not re- 
quired to do any duty, as the war was considered practically over, 
and military dicipline was somewhat relaxed, and in a few weeks 
the regiment returned to Nashville, where, on the 30th day of 
June. 1865, we were mustered out, and sent to Columbus, Ohio, to 
receive our pay. 

At Columbus, we were required to wait a whole week on the 
paymaster to get ready to pay us off, and as fast as the miea were 



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settled with, they started for their homes by the first train leav- 
ing" the city, singly or in groups, just an they pleased. 

This ended my three years' experience as a voluetear soldier, 
seven months of which time was spent as a pris<mer of war. 

JAMES W. WELLS, 

San Diego, Cal. 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 

OF 

EMMETT F. TAGGART 
As a Volunteer Soldier 

Geo. S Schmutz, Historian, 

Wooster, Ohio. 
My Dear Comrade: I am in receipt of your letter of recent 
date requesting a contribution of personal experience while in the 
service of the 102d O. V. I., during the war. 

I know of nothing that was sothoroughly impressed on my mind 
that occurred during said service as my experience of capture and 
long months of imprisonmentof myself and others of ourregiment, 
and with that in view I will proceed from headquarters at Deca- 
tur, Ala., Sept. 23, 1864. 

At that time Col. Wm. Given was in command of the post at 
Decatur, and had received orders to make a detail of 400 men 
from the 18th Mich, and the 102d Ohio, and make a reconnoissance 
toward Athens, Ala., having learned that a large force of confed- 
erates under Gens. Forest and Buford had crossed the Tennessee 
river, and was in the vicinity of Athens. Accordingly a detail of 
166 men from the 18th Mich, and 186 men including officers was 
made from the 102d Ohio, making a total of 352 men and officers. 
The number of men furnished by each company was as follows: 
A, 26; B. 18; C, 6; D, 21; E, 21; F, 13; G, 20: H, 24; I, 10; K, 19, to- 
tal, 186. Four Captaina tv;o Lieutenants and one Major, the en- 
tire detail was placed under command of Lieut. Col. Jonas D. Elli- 
ott, of our regiment. 




EMMET F. TAGGART. 



RECORD ^'■'''^*^= ^°- I' 1^2'^ ^- V. I.; enlisted 

Feb. 17, 1864; apre 18: capttred Sept. 24, 

1864, inaction at Athens, Ala.; cxchansred April 22, 1865; 
mustered out Ma.y ;!0. 1865, at Camp Chase, O., bj' order of 
War Department. 



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\\ e left camp the night of the 23d, 1864, and on the morning- of 
the 24th we met the enemy under command of Gen, Forest, about 
three miles from Athens. Skirmishing beg-an at once, and by per- 
sistent fig-hting- and rapid advances, were soon surrounded, which 
left no alternative but to rut cur way through to the fort at Athens, 
which was about 2>^ milps away, (and so far as I was concerned, I 
could not see any fun in it,) but having a commander that knew 
no fear, we followed, and several times cut our way throuo-h 
three times our number. We finally reached a point insight of the 
fort, and then had to witness the humiliating sight of the Rebel 
flag floating over the fort, it having been surrendered by that cow- 
ardly cur. Col. Campbell, who was dishodorably dismissed the 
service for cowardice, and the guns manned by the Johnnies and 
ready to give us a hot reception. Our ammunition was exhausted, 
and we were compelled to hoist the white flag, which was done 
very reluctantly, by a a Sergeant of the 18tb Mich., who was shot 
through the shoulder by a cowardly ruffian, but the flag was ao-ain 
hoisted and hostilities ceased. We laid down our arms. Our loss 
in killed and wounded was slight in comparison to theirs. (I at 
least know there were more of them kil'ed than there were of us.) 
I heard Gen. Forest say to some of his officers, their loss 
would reach nearly one thousand in killed and wounded. 

When they had gathered all the prisoners together, we num- 
bered about 800, including some colored troops that were guarding 
the railroad, and were in block houses. Shortly after our surren- 
der, a systematic method of plundering our men began. Our 
men were robbed of money, watches, clothing, and, in fact, every- 
thing of value, going so far as to exchange entire suits of clothes. 
My fir?it encounter was with a Johnny, about my size, who had the 
gall to take hold of me and demand my boots, a pair that my moth- 
er had sent me only a short time before, and, of course, I did not 
propose to give them up without a struggle; so when he took hold 
of my arm, I at the same time took him by the throat. About that 
time a second Johnny rode up, jumped off his horse and demanded 
the boots, which caused some hot words between the Johnnies. I 
tried to impress it upon their minds that the boots belong-eJ to me 
and they need not quarrel over my boots, but the larger rebel 
grabbed hold of me, which I thought very unmannerly of him, but 
of course, between the two the big duffer got the boots, and in re- 
turn gave me a pair of old shoes with the uppers most all cut off 
across the toes. (I guess the fellew had corns,) and he never of- 
fered me any boot, but went off very much pleased, and of course 



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I wavS- very much mad. Very shortly a Johnny rode up and grab- 
bed at my hat, but he missed it and I hung to it for two days, and 
then they got that. Next went my pants, and in exchange I got a 
pair of overalls. I was no exception, all the boys fared alike among 
the cutthroats that captured us. 

We were soon started south between two lines of cavalry, and 
their fear of a recapture, of course meant a forced march for us. 
We were headed towards Florence, Ala.y crossing the Tennessee 
river above the Shoals, and dowu through west Tennessee into 
the edge of Mississippi, striking the railroad at Cherokee station, 
getting there in the evening in a terrible rain storm. The next 
morning they issued us a little meat, the only thing they gave us 
since our capture, four days previous, and had marched us at the 
rate of 30 to 35 miles a day, many times having to stop on account 
of the horses giving out. We were loaded on the cars (not palace) 
but box or cattle cars and run dowd to Corinth, and from there 
to Meridian, Miss., and here we were put into a small stockade 
over night, one so small that we scarce could all lie down at once. 
They here issued us a pint of corn meal with no means to cookit,but 
Yankee genius was not slow to find means to get there; a few of 
tis put our meal into a haversack that I had stolen from a Johnny, 
one of the guards, before leaving the car, and we dug a hole under 
the fence, and called to our aid an old colored man, who took our 
meal and baked it and brought it back about midnight, and with 
the piece of bacon that was in the haversack that I borrowed from 
the guard, we had at least what seemed to us a very good meal. 

The next morning about 4 o'clock we again took our "palace 
cars." Our oflBcers and the colored troops were left here. W^e 
then ran down as far as Okalona, Miss. There we lay that night, 
being kept in the cars most of the time. The next morning we 
received the glad tidings from a drunken engineer of our train, 
that "he would send some of you d— d Yankees to H — 11" before he 
stopped, and being in the fifth car from the front of the train, it 
was not a very pleasant thought to think of reaching that warm 
place so soon. Our train started out first, and we had not gone 
very far v^hen we disovered that the speed rapidly increased, and 
over a road that was in a terrible condition, and in fact, they had 
orders not to exceed eight miles an hour. But a drunken engin- 
eer could not guess the speed, or did not care. He was soon run- 
ning at a 25 mile clip; and it was all we could do to stick to the car, 
and in about three miles we struck a bridge over a small stream, 
and the first four cars went through the bridge, and the car that I 



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was in tipped up on end, myself and others jumping- out and down 
a bank about four feet, and rolled down into a cornfield. We all 
went to work g-etting- out the killed and wounded whish numbered 
15 Johnnier^ and 7 Yankees killed, beside several very badly crip- 
pled. While there we tore the tin off the top of the cars and made 
pans and parched enoug-h corn for several days. We were then 
taken back to Okalona and corralled tliat night, and the next morn- 
ing started over the same road, the bridge havino- been fixed up 
■during the night. 

We were hauled to Epp's Station, on the Torab%bee river, 
about 25 miles above Demopolis. We were then put on board a 
boat and taken down to Demopolis, and there transferred to cars 
and run across to Selma on the Alabama river, thence by boat to 
Cahaba prison. From the boat we were taken to the proves mar- 
shall 's office. We were then enrolled, stripped and searched. 
Everything of valne found was taken. Instructions as to orison 
rules were given, and then marched down to the prison, called 
"Castle Morgan," or Cahaba Prison. This prison wasanold cot- 
ton and corn shed situated on the bank of the Alabama river, and 
was owned by Col. Samuel M.Hill, and used by him as a ware- 
house before the |war. It was of brick construction, and one 
story in height. It was 193 feet long and 116 feet wide, with a 
roof partly rotted off A cook yard was built on the south side of 
the prison 75x140 feet in size, where all the prisoners cooked their 
rations, when they had any to cook. The prison was in two sepa- 
rate rooms. The one was used for sleeping^ quarters, having- bunks 
built five tiers hig-h, and ^as in size about 40x100, while the other 
room was 75x193 with an L off the short room 40x93, the water 
closet on the north-east corner of the building in size 8 feet wide, 
15 feet long and 9 feet high. A stockade surrounded the entire 
enclosure. 

This prison was presided over by Col. Samuel Jones, 22d La. 
Inf. This man Jones, I am informed, was cashiered at Vicksburg- 
for cowardice, and then sent to Cahaba in charge of the prison. 

We had been there but a few days when I saw the first. piece 
of damnable brutalitj to prisoners. One of the rules wa- that 
no one was allowed to stop or turn back in the passag-e way lead- 
ing from the main building to the cook yard. One morning- as I 
was going- out a comrade thoug-htlessly stopped in this'g-ang-way 
and was immediately shot down without a word of warning- 
killing him almost instantly. I think about the sceond day I was 
there I had occasion to go to the sink, and absent-mindedly I crossed 



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the dead-line, and was followuig^ ibe g'uard around the corner wheo 
he happened to spy me close behind him. He. at once, pulled his 
gun from bis shoulder, and at the same time I think I jumped about 
ten feet and got behind a larg-e post that was a support to the roof; 
and if you ever beard a fellow beg; for him not to shoot, I think it 
was I. He finally told me to go and I went to ray quarters, forget- 
ting that I had started upon urgent business at the time. There 
were many and severe hardships endured in that pen by the boys 
of the 102d O. V. I.; but I now leave this for others to tell. 

The latter part of October, about 40 men were taken out to 
be exchanged, among them nine of our regiment, the writer among" 
them. We were taken down the river to Montgomery, thence by 
rail via Columbus, Ga., to Macon, Ga., and just the day before we 
got there. Uncle Billy was on his way to the sea, and he made a call 
on Macon and cut the railroad so we could go no further, and was 
put into the pen there. This was quite a large stockade and was 
divided into two parts by a board partition. On the one side we 
were confined and the other side the Johnnies, who were bad citi- 
zens. (We thought it should have had all the rebels in it ). After 
our arrival our band was augmented by a few more ''fresh fish,"" 
that had been captured from Sherman's "bummers" near there, 
and among them were some very live Yanks. 

We had not been there very long until a plot was made by 18 
of us and sworn to stand or fall by the results. We began the op- 
peration of tunneling out. Our tools consisted of an old door hinge, 
a half canteen, (for shovel) two haversacks and a rope, (as motive 
and carrying power). We worked day and night in a small shan- 
ty near the center of the stockade. Starting by making a square 
hole down seven feet, and then starting out on a level. We worked 
at this for almost two weeks, depositing our dirt in holes around 
the stockade, and covering it up with old dirt and leaves. We dug 
112 feet and then dug up as we supposed on the outside. But to 
our consternation when we saw daylight, found we were yet 18 
inches on the inside of the tense. The night dark and raining, a 
splendid night to get away. But water entered our tunnel, which 
we had to abandon until the afternoon of the second day, when we 
dug out, all ready to go as soon as darkness would shelter us; but 
fate v/as against us, for just at sunrise a squad of guards came in 
and i\'alked around the dead-line and stopping opposite the shanty 
they found a bunch of fresh dirt, where we had plugged up the first 
hole, although we had closed it up as best we could. They knockd 
the plug out and took a gun with bayonet on and poking it 



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down, caught a little Dutchman in the calf of the leg. This 
brought forth a ye]l 1 hat would have done credit to a Camanche 
Indian. The guards came over to our shanty and put us out of 
the tunneling business. The}' soon set us digging the hole shut 
between the dead-line and stockade. This finished, stringent 
rules were adopted for a time, during which time we formulated 
another scheme. This was more desperate, which was to mob the 
guard, break down the stockade and get away. Fighting materi- 
al was got by knocking down an old chimney, breaking the bricks 
into pieces, so they could be handled easier. There were assigned 
four or five men to each guard. Time, one o'clock at night. The 
men were being stationed for the assault, and just about five min- 
utes before the signal was to be given, the guard from the outside 
came rushing in, and the surprise was so great for us that we had 
to run for our lives. But 13 of the boys were caught, and put un- 
der guard until morning, when each one was tied up by the thumbs, 
one of the most severe punishments that can be inflicted to mor- 
tal man. The rebel officer tried to force them to name the leader 
of our mob, but the boys*^ nerve never failed them, and the John- 
nies never did find out the leader, whose name was James Elliott, 
one or Kilpatrick's scouts. We were then in a few days sent 
down to Andersonville, Ga. 

On the way down after leaving Fort Valley some miles, one 
of the most exciting incidents occurred as a prisoner. In the 
next car to ours, 12 of Sherman's hammers, all ragged men, 
decided to mob the guards, throw them out and get away. So as 
the time came, the guards, three in number, were disarmed and 
thrown out of the car and our boys jumped out on the other side 
of the car. The train stopped and the Johnnies tried to stop our 
boys, but they ran like deer fleeing from the hounds. They fairly 
flew through a cornfield The guards soon gave up the chase and 
came bach to the train. An old planter said he'd get them, and as 
our train started we heard the blood hounds bellowing and knew 
the results of the chase. The boys ran over 40 miles before they 
were caught that night, and all brought back two days later, not 
much worse off, only the wear and tear of their clothes, 

We soon reached Andersonville, and soon were in front of old 
Wirz's headquarters. We were there enrolled and soon started 
for that Hell on earth called Andersonville Prison. I shall never 
forget the sights that met my eyes wh en the big gates were opened 
and we marched into that bourne whence 13,716mennever returned. 
The prison was located in Sumpter Co., Ga., and 60 miles south 



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east of Macon, This slaughter pen was 750x1540 feet and was made 
by placing- timbers on end in the ground in such manner as to form 
a solid wall 18 feet high above ground. Near the lop of this stock- 
ade were 42 sentinel or guard boxes in such manner that the guard 
could see all that went on in the pen. On the inside ot this stock- 
ade 18 feet was the dead-line. This was constructed by driving 
stakes in the ground, leaving them 2 feet high and nailing a lath on 
top of the stakes. To step or reach over this line was sure death. 
The Confederate Government through the agenc}' of Howell Cobb 
and John H. Winder built this stockade, evidentl}' with the design 
of destroying its captives by slow starvation and exposing them 
unsheltered and uncared for, to the burning sun, the rains, fogs 
and deadly miasma from the quaking, slimy quagmire, occupying 
over tvvo acres through the central part of the pen. It was built in 
January and February 1864. Gen. Winder made the assertion 
that he would kill more here than the}' would at the front, and 
facts and figares fully sustain the assertion. He was so brutal 
and heathenish that he was soon promoted and placed ia charge of 
all Confederate prisons, and Capt. Wirz, one of his cowardly ruff- 
ians was placed in charge of this Hell on earth. The first prison- 
ers were placed in this pen on February 25, 1864, and the last to 
leave it (and the writer was one of them) was April 17, 1865. 

During the time the prison was occupied, 13 months and 22 
days, there were hauled out dead 13,710 men, besides many un- 
known buried in holes and in the earth to protect them from the 
cold winds and rain, the ground caving in and burying them, and 
their bodies remain where they died, There was confined in this 
pen at various times during this period 52,345 men. From June 
1st to October 31st, 153 days, there were 10,187 deaths recorded. 
One death for evary 21^ minutes, day and night, during this en- 
tire time. For the entire time the pen was occupied, one died ev- 
ery 43 minntes. On August 23d, there were 127 men died, one 
every 11 minutes. In fact, every 4th man who entered that prison 
was later hauled out dead. Oh, what a record for man's inhu- 
manity to man 1 The poet may well say : 

"The muffled drum and roll has beat 

The soldier's last tattoo; 
No more on life's parade shall meet 

That brave and fallen few." 

I give you these facts and figures obtained from oflBcial data 
and personal research since the war. The bodies of these men 



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(1,055 of tbeni are fr-^'i our dear old Ohio) lie buried under the 
shade of the bean!ital Mag-nolia Trees in the National Ceme- 
tery nearby where they fell. Oh, my countrymen, what a record 
of starvation and suffering was endured by these men, naked, half 
naked, cold, hungry, black, dirty, starved skeletons, brought to 
that condition by inhuman treatment of the Confederacy through 
its officers in charge of these prisons, 

By what strange coincidence was it that all these cowards 
were placed in charge of these pens, such as Winder, Wirz, Bar- 
rett, Turner, Jones, -and Fitzpatrick, all these men were cruel 
cowards. A brave man is humane. There must have been meth- 
od in placing that kind of men in charge, therefore the Confeder- 
ate Governmeut is responsible for the deaths of more than 30.000 
men put to death in the prisons of the south during the war. 

But my narrative is getling too long. Suffice it to say, I lived 
through more than seven months of hardship, starvation and suf- 
fering in these confederate prisons, and I thank God that I have 
been spared to this day, and that I had the honor and pleasure of 
helping to build a monument on the old prison ground at Ander* 
sonville, and to deliver the oration dedicating it to the memory of 
Ohio's 1,055 sons, who gave up their lives by starvation and dis- 
ease, rather than forsake the old flag. The dedication taking 
place Dec. 18, 1901, 1 at that time had been elected as the Depart- 
ment Commander of the Grand Army of Ohio, aud comrades of 
the 102d Regiment, my honor in this was shared by you boys, who 
were my companions in arms, and many of you suffered the same 
hardships with me in the great struggle of prison life. 

But comrades, not all of our boys that tvere captured and went 
south lived to return home, as near as I can gather the history. 
We left out of the 186 men of the 102d Regiment 13, who died while 
prisoners, and 70 comrades who went down on the ill-fated Sulta- 
na, on the Mississippi river April 27, 1865. These men had just 
been released from prison and on their way home, after suffering 
all these months of torment, and then to be blown up by a treach- 
erous engineer, is, in my judgment, .the greatest catastrophe dur- 
ing the war. Out of our total captured the bones of 83 of our boys 
lie bleaching in the southland. 

But my comrades, it is pleasant to think, after all our years of 
marching, fighting and suffering, that the cause for which thous- 
have died had at last triumphed. The Union had been preserved 
and human slavery had been blotted from the Nation, and the flag 
floated over a reunited country, made so by the blood of more 






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than one-half a million of America's best and the bravest of 



men. 



Our brig-htest smiles, 

Are for the true and brave ; 
Our tears are for those 
Who fill a soldier's grave. 

E. F. TAGGART, 

Past Dept. Com. of Ohio. 
Akron, Ohio. 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 

OF 

ALFRED M. SHEETS 
As a Volunteer Soldier 



BY REQUEST I hereby present some of the incidents of my 
service during my sojourn with my company and regiment, 
during three years of the war. I can truthfully say that I was the 
first man to enlist in Co. B, 102d O. V. I., July 25, 1862, at the age 
of 18 years and 11 months. I went into camp with this company 
at Mansfield, O. We, as soon as the regiment was full, reported 
for duty at Covington Heights, south of Cincinnati. The second 
evening after arriving there Co. B was ordered out on picket. I 
quite well remember starting down the heights on the south side 
through woods and fields, after dark, until we struck the pike. 
The company officers had orders to proceed on south until we 
reached the crossroads, several miles from the place of starting. 
The company was divided up into squads of about sixteen men, 
and deployed along the roads facing south. I remember that I 
and comrade Devilla Bender were on the out post. All was quiet 
until about twelve o'clock. We heard the cavalry coming, and we 
could hear galloping long before it reached hailing distance. B"^i- 
nally the noise came uncomfortably near, and I called, "Haiti" 
When the noise suddenly stopped I said, "Who comes there?" 




alfrp:d m. shki:tr 



RECORD 



Private Co. B. I02d O. V. I.; enlisted 
Aiig-iist 8, 1862; :\<>;e 19: 3 years; mus- 



tered out with company- June 30, 1865. 



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but receiving- no answer, I again gave the challenge, and received no 
reply. 1 then concluded it must be a loose horse, and by stooping 
close to the ground, I could see that it was nothing but a loose 
mule. "Vv e concluded to let him pass witboutthe countersign, and 
■it was great sport to hear this mule challenged time after time, and 
let pass as we did for miles. 

My next on picket was on the famous old march through Ken- 
tucky with Buell's army. When we arrived at Frankfort, Co. B 
was detailed for picket, and sent west of the town some three miles 
to the outpost. I with hve of my comradesconstituted the advance 
guard. We had orders to keep about one-fourth mile from the 
company, which we did. We also had orders to kpep a sharp look- 
out for the enemy. When about three miles out, the advance went 
around a hill down in a valley by a little stream, we discovered 
about twenty rebel cavalry. It was then getting so dark that it 
wa with difficulty that we could distinguish their uniforms from 
ours. We immediately hustled back, when we found company B 
just around the curve mentioned, when we reported. Co. B was 
ordered to climb the bank and over a rail fence on a bank some 15 
feet higher than the road. We vv^ere to keep quiet and if the ene- 
my followed the advanced guard, as they had already been follow- 
ing o this point, the boys. in the company, at this time about 60 
in number, were to reserve their fire until the enemy got squrely 
in front of us, when an order to fire low would be given. The en- 
emy came to within three rods of the point designated, when they 
halted square in the road, and Vv^e were as quiet as death. We 
knew exactly the orders. We could hear them say they saw our 
advance guard, and if they only continued going they would cer- 
tainly catch it. They remained at this place something like five 
minutes, then heard them moving. We felt sure our time had 
come, but lucky for them they turned back. I often think of this 
escape of those brave men, for I cannot imagine a single one of 
their squad of twenty or more could have possibly lived, after 
passing through this place, as we were within twenty feet of them 
We stayed on this spot until morning, then were ordered h;irk and 
proceeded day by day untill we reached Crab Orchard. On poino- 
into camp at this place my haversack was nearly emrty. I pab-,ed 
a comrade from an Iowa regiment, who had captured a turkev 
and was dressing it. He gave me the gizzard. I boiled it in mv 
fruit can I used to make coffee in; this I ate tor supper nothinp- 
more nor nothing less. The next evening, I quite well remember 
we drew seven days' rations, or rather all that we were to have 



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for seven days. I bad seven crackers and a slice of snw-belly was my 
stock in trade. I sized up my pile and resolved as I had been hun- 
g-ry ever since I left home, that I would eat it all for supper, vehirb 
I did and be sure of it. The next morning- we started on the march 
and after marching- all that day, resting- over night we continued un- 
til the next afternoon, we halted on the side of a big hill and stayed 
there until the next morning. Below our camp on the fiat was a 
cornfield-, being nearer starved than I had ever been, I concluded 
to inspect that cornfield. I went down and found it had beets 
husked out. Having had experience as a busker, I was of the 
opinon I could find a nubbin that had been skipped some place in 
that vast field. I vv'ent bach and forth for more than a mile, and all 
that I could find that cattle would eat, except fodder, was a pump- 
kin, about as large as a gallon cror.k. I never liked oumpkinsat 
home, but I lost no time, neither did I hesitate to take Mr. pump- 
kin with me. I boiled the half of it for supper, and I can truth- 
fully say it did not taste good, but it did materially aid in keeping 
my sides from flopping together. You may talk of the pangs of 
hunger, or pain in sickness, but you cannot imagine the distress 
a person in good health will have after doing without nourishment 
for more than t\vo days, and then to dine on a common cow pump- 
kin boiled, I afterwards learned to divide my rations for each 
day. The next morning 1 boiled the other half of the pumpkin 
for breakfast. We resumed our march day by day until we landed 
at Clarksville, Tenn., January 1, 1863. 

Up to this time and after this I was with the regiment until 
October, 1864, I took the billious fever, having just returned from 
guard duty at Sulphur Trestle, Ala., and, by the way, I wish to 
tell of a little incident at or near the Trestle. A detachment of 
the 102d was there for the purpose of guarding it. East of the 
trestle, perhaps a mile is a public road running parallel with the 
railroad. We were on guard one nigh:^. I was on picket post, 
my beat running parallel and within ten rods of this public road. 
I went on duty at 10 p. m. that evening, and about 10:30 I heard 
troops coming, cavalry, artillery and infantry. I walked back and 
forth on my beat, and as they passed on the road, I could hear 
their talk quite plainly. I was anxious to know what force they 
belonged to, but did not inquire. It was moonlight, though not 
bright enough to distinguish the color of their uniform. Two of 
their party strolled along in the field. I was close to them, and as I 
discovered they were not wearing our uniform I did not bid them 
the time, neither did I inquire who they were. After all had 



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passed and the time came for my relief to come and past, I became 
a little suspicious. I walked past my post on the beat of the<other 
i^entinal, and could not see hira, then I went in the other direction, 
and could not lind the other picket. I remained on duty until 
inornin^, when I left my post and went to the fort and found the 
boys watching- for the rebels, who had passed so close to me, all 
other g-uards having been exiled in about 10:30 the night before. 
Shortly, after this vve were ordered backito Decatur. The first night 
after returning, we landed across the river and stayed on the bank 
of the railroad, the river having flooded the country, and the wind 
blew fierce and cold. We finally got a fire started, but had to stay 
in the rain and sleet until morning. We had no other means of 
crossing the river than with pontoon boats. I thing we had in all 
in this squad abont 40 men. We pulled one of the boats up the 
river about a mile and loaded in perhaps a dozen boys, and with 
tlie improvised oars pulled bard for the Decatur side. The river 
being very high and rapid, the boys landed way below Decatur. 
In this way we all crossed to camp. That same evening I was on 
picket up the river. Not at all well, in the night I was terribly 
sick, but stood my turn, coming off duty at 7 a. ra. the following 
morning. W ent to camp in to the reserve post. Lieut. Ames was 
on duty there, and said, "Alf, you are sick," and told me to go to 
camp. I started and walked perhaps a mile to camp. When I 
reached camp I found the boys had fixed up their tents onlv for 
themseves, and as the storm was still raging, continued going un- 
til 1 reached an old brick house, abandoned and alone inside the 
works near the railroad. I went into the house, and the doors and 
windows were all torn out below and above. I went up stairs, at 
the head of which was a room about 14x14, two open windows on 
each side. I unfolded my blanket and had my overcoat on. I 
laid down and folded my blanket over me, and in this place I stayed 
four days, suffering terribly. The first two days I occasionally 
would go to the river and get a drink, but finally was unable to go. 
I began to think the matter over and wonder whether it would not 
be as well for me to just give up and die. I laid down and thougth 
of my mother at home, and concluded to make one more t llort. 
I crawled to the window and looked out to see some one to ask -or 
help. Very soon I saw a comrade from an Indiana regiment. I 
called to him and told him my situation. He kindly asked to do 
something for me. I asked him to go to Co. B, 102d Ohio, and tell 
any one of the good boys to come up to see me. In less than twen- 
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long- 1 had been there without food and care. I told him four days 
He brought me water that I so much craved, when he returned to, 
the company and sent Lieut. Ames. He came with all the sympa- 
thy of a mother, and when he came again he came with a friend ol" 
all soldiers, Dr. Mitchell. He gave me medicine and advised me tO' 
go to the little hospital about three-quarters of a mile south of De- 
catur, near the litfle redoubt, where I wastakeninan ambulance, 
I was there some three da3's before I could take any nourishment 
at all, A comrade brought me four apples, and I ate three, when 
I got better and in ten days from the time I got to the hospital, 1 
was able to go down stairs to dinner. After dinner I went back 
up stairs, and was looking out the south-west window and saw a 
line of troops more than a mile long advancing in line of battle. We 
watched them, and on looking out the north window could see at a 
distance our men around their camp fires, apparently not aware 
of the approach of Hood's army, as it proved to be. About five 
minutes later a battery appeared coming out of the timber. They 
Turned their guns on us, and I immediately saw a flash of fire and 
smoke, and a six-pound shell went square through the room we 
occupied. I thought at once they did not intend to fire on a hos- 
pital, and I looked out of a window onto a wing of the building to 
see if our red flag was floating, and found it was. Just then the 
second shell came through our room, when we concluded our hos- 
pital was doomed. We grabbed our belongings, but before we got 
out the fonrth shell went through our room. We were ordered to gO' 
to the fortifications at Decatur, and as it passed out of the house an- 
other shell dropped and went through a tent, and demolished an 
old stove, bounced and struck an ambulance that stood there, and 
I very well remember the driver dodging to escape it. We, who 
were able to walk, did our best down the pike, though we were in 
ex;5Ct line with the artillery, and that battery fired at us all the 
way to the fort. The shells bounced all along the pike and passed 
ns without doing any harm. After reaching the fortificationss, 
we remained there in the rain until about midnight. We w^ere 
then ordered across the river, where some time the next day we 
were sent by rail to the hospital at Huntsville, where we stayed 
two or three days, then were sent to Stevenson on our way to Nash- 
ville. We arrived at Stevenson about midnight and were unloaded 
at the railroad crossing, and it was darker than Hades and raining 
and blowing cold. We sheltered ourselves under some box cars 
as well as we could. At this time I took a chill. I Vv^as braced 
against an apple tree standing near by. I remember I wished the 



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boys to tie me to the ^rec so that! would not shake to pieces. 
Near morning- a frei^X'^t train came along- and took us to Nashville. 
We were placed in a hospital on Colleg-e Hill. Here I rested for 
a day, when I saw coming- through the hospital a corps of Drs. 
They came to me and asked if I had not just returned from the 
•front? I said I had, and after examining me, and taking- my name 
company and regiment, they told me to report to No. 1 Hospital^ 
the next morning-. I did, and to my surprise was handed mea fur- 
lough for eight days, On account of delay of trains; and missing 
connections I had but three days of my eight left after I reached 
Ashland. I made a hasty call at home, and after going to see my 
best girl ,1 left for the front again, arriving at Nashville ingood time 
for the battle with Hood. The day before the battle we were 
placed just outside of Fort Negley. I was the first man in 
the fortification on the left front. The next morning therewas a 
heavy dew which delayed action until about 9 o'-clock. Just'as soon 
as it raised high enough that v/e could see the enemy but a short 
distance away in breastworks, a 32-pound cannon in Fort Negley, 
no'^ more than twenty feet from me fired the first shot at the 
battle of Nashville. Then the second cannon nearer the center 
of the line, and the third near the river on the right were the sig- 
for the fray. There was a continuous rattle of artillery and mus- 
ketry for two days. When the battle ended it was raining. We 
had followed the enemy to the hills, and then ordered back to the 
city. 

As soon as the road was opened up, we were sent to the regi- 
ment at Decatur The next day after arriving at my company, I 
was detailed to report for duty to Gen. R. S. Granger, where I was 
assigned to deliver messages. This I continued to do until the 
regiment was mustered out at Nashville. In the meantime, I de- 
livered to the troops at Decatur, with others, the message of the 
surrender of Lee and the assassination of president Lincoln. 

I am very proud of the fact that I was a member of the 102d 
O. V. I. I left camp Mansfield with it in 1862, and returned with 
it in 1865. 

Quite a controversy arose at our last reunion as to who was 
the last man to cross the pontoon bridge at Decatur at the time of 
its evacuation, and I believe some three of the comrades claimed 
the honor. Now, comrades, let me tell you that I was the very 
last man of the 102d to cross the bridge when we started for home. 
Some of you will remember that we boarded the train on the east 
side of the river about 1 p. m. The boys of Grang-er's Headquar- 



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ters got up a farewell dinner for me at the old McCarty botei, and 
just as we commenced eating- our 102d Band passed onto the pon- 
toon bridge heading the regiment, I hustled to finish my dinner, 
I then grabbed my belongings and started, and as I reached the 
bridge on the Decatur side the boys were just going ofiE on the.- 
other, and before I reached the other shore, the boys were all 
aboard and ready to start. They saw me coming and held the 
train until I boarded it, so that I am the last man of the 102d.O. V, 
I. to cross the pontoon bridge at Decatur, Ala. 

In addition to the foregoing' pages I wish to note a few inci- 
dents that happened while I was a soldier. It will be remembered 
by the boys of the 102d that in and around Tullahoma that the 
country was infested with a dangerous band of bushwhackers. 
Gen. Payne commanded our troops at that place, and a determined 
man was be to put a stop to this sort of warfare. I reraem ber one 
morning he came to the door of the stockade, where I was on guard 
with two others of the 102d, ( I wish I knew their names). The 
General told me to bring the prisoner we had to his headquarters 
at once. I found a boy about 20 years old, a bushwhacker. We 
took him before the General as directed. I told the boy where we 
were taking him, and gave him advice to answer the General 
promptly and to spare no one, as his life was at stake. Gen. Payne 
approached the boy and asked who the parties were that were with 
him and dcnng all the depredations they had been accused of. His 
ansv/er was, "I don't know." The General raised his finger be- 
fore the boy's face and said, "you will be before your God in half 
an hour," and directed us to move at once to the woods, about ^ 
of a mile east and shoot him dead. We started with him and 
went perhaps }^ mile, when we were overtaken by some ten or 
twelve of Payne's body guards, who relieved as of our duty. We» 
however, went with them and witnessed the execution. The pris- 
oner was allowed five minutes to pray before being shot. The 
latter part of this time he devoted to cursing the Yankees. A 
few days later I witnessed another execution of a bushwhacker at 
the same place, this being one of, the toughest mortals I ever saw 
in all my life. He would not answer a single question asked- by 
Gen. Payne, nor say a word to anybody until they dug his grave. 
He was told to kneel down in it. He then was told he would have 
five minutes to pray if he so desired. He devoted all of this time 
to cursing the Yankees; he vvas then shot by Gen. Papne's es- 
cort. 

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'.:ment, and hope to r jt my comrades once each year at least 
;at our reunions as I >ng as life shall last. 

A, M, SHEETS, 

Ashland, Ohio. 



OF 

J^COB HOMER 

AS A PRISONER OF WAR 

Geo. S. Schmutz, Historian. 

I will g-ive you a short history of my capture in the action at 
Athens, and my march to our prison pen, and the Sultana 
disaster. Our regiment v/as stationed at Decatur, and there was 
a detachment of ours and the 18th Mich, regiments sent to Athens, 
about 350 men and officers on the 24th day of September, 1864. 
We went by rail and when we got there, the men at Athens had 
already surrendered and we did not know it. and we fought them 
three and a half hours. There v/ere about five of the Johnnies to 
one of us, and I presume that we killed more of them ihan -they 
did of us. On that fatal field Lieat. Col. Elliott was killed, one of 
the bravest man that ever entered a military camp. The boys all 
said he was too brave, AVhen he got up to order fix bayonets to 
charge their lines he received a shot in the forehead. (My read- 
ers will observe that we were concealed in a dense weods), but we 
charged them all the same and broke their lines, and when about 
200 yards from the fort we discovered that it had been surrendered 
and then we scarcely knew what to do. The rebs threw shells in- 
to our ranks cuttiug off the apple limbs above our heads, and it 
was getting pretty hot for us. There came a regiment of John- 
nies trotting up out of a ravine back of an old house, so after our 
Colonel was killed, Capt. Huston of Co. A took command and we all 
thought it best to surrender or we might all be killed. Capt. 
Huston hoisted a netvspaper. We had only taken one day's ra- 
tions with us and had to march about 100 miles on that. Not a 



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bit did they give bs until we readied Cherokee Station^ Miss., and 
then they did not give us any of our rations, they g-ave us some of 
their own. Their hardtack was not as good as ours*, they were 
made of r.ornmeai and shorts. ' 

I will here state how I got along on the march while in the 
Johnnies' hands. When we got to the Tennessee river, some of 
the boys gave pen knives and money to ride on the horses 
with the rebs, but I did not want to honor them that much. I had 
a good three-bladed knife and a silver pen holder and gold pen that 
would have made a Johnny 's eye water to get hold of it. I will 
tell further on what became of them. You remember how the 
rebs took our good hats, shoes and blankets, and when we got to 
prison nearly froze. Can you remember of receiving two ears of 
corn for two days' rations? This Vv^as issued to the sick and woun- 
ded as they march en from Athens to Cherokee Station. Now I 
will tell vou how I got across the river. I was like the hard-shell 
Baptist preacher, I took up my breeches and waded across. I 
tonk off my shoes, pants and drawers and rolled them up in a bun- 
dle and then rolled my shirt up under my arms. I first put on my 
shoes so that the mussel shells could not hurt my feet, and then I 
started, and about half way over it got pretty deep, so that my 
shirt began to get wet. I began to think I had better paid the 
rebs to let me ride, but I kept on and finally it got less deep, and 
then I got out all right and best end up with care. I sat down 
and replaced mv shoes and other things, and in a short time I was 
ready to march again with the rest on our way to the southern 
prison pen. Sometimes on the march the negroes broke ranks 
and tried to escape, The rebs would shoot at them, but I did not 
hear of any getting shot. These negro soldiees vv'ere captured at 
Athens and Pulaska. While at Cherokee one of my comrades, W. 
H. Ross, said to me, "let us try to make our escape to-night.'' I 
told him it would not do if we did, and if they recaptured us, they 
would kill us, as we were too far from our lines to make a sure 
thing of it. So finally we simmered down and went to sleep and 
wait the results. The next morning we took the train for Corinth, 
and when we got there I could see but little of the city. All I saw 
were a few houses and breastworks, which was thrown up some 
time before. Well, after the rebs got everything in order, I think 
they changed locomotives, the conductor that was with us did not 
go any further, and some of the boys heard him tell the engineer 
not to run faster than 12 miles an hour, but the engineer replied 
t hat he would run us to Hell in an hour, and they were going at a 



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pretty sbarp rate, and tbat night the boxing- took fire and blazed 
sup to the top of the cars before the guards could get word to the 
■engineer; finally they reached him and he stopped and put out the 
fire, and then they went on again until the next morning, when 
about fifty miles above Meridian the train wa about to cross a 
small stream, and the locomotive got across, but the next car be- 
hind went plunging into that creek, and the car was all broken in- 
to kindling wood, and several more were badly smashed, and there 
were two or three of our men killed, and a great many mangled, 
•and if I mistake not the rebel guards suffered more than our meu. 
The cars were jammed together and caught the Johnnies' legs 
between the cars, so they had to get rails to pry the cars apart in 
order to extract the legs, and when they had succeeded in freeing 
them, they carried them in blankets to the nearest houses. V/hen 
the accident happened the Johnnies threw their guns down, 
screamed and cried for help, and finally they gathered up their 
guns and pat a guard around us until they had the bridge fixed up. 
We had a pretty good time parching corn, for we slopped right in 
the midst of a cornfield. I forgot to mention of how the iron rail 
had run in at the bottom of one of the cars and out of the roof at 
the othpr; and the car that I was in was the third from the one 
that was broken up, and the second one was also badly damaged. 
Wm. Ross and I were lying down when the accident happened, and 
Bill Ross jumped up and said, "for God's sake, Jake, hear our poor 
boys moaning. Let us go and help them." Well, we stayed in the 
cornfield camp about four days, and by this time they repaired the 
bridge and then we took the train for Doraopolis. Landing there 
we took the boat waiting on the Tombigbee river. We ran up the 
river four miles and then took a train for Selma, Ala. I forgot to 
mention the death of Josiah Morehead. He died while going from 
bull pen to the station at Meridian. We went from Selma by boat 
on the Alabama river to Cahaba. Cahaba is a small town on the 
Alabama river, and a few rods above the, town the Cahaba river em- 
ties into the Alabama, and Canaba is aboutilS miles down the river 
from Selma, in Dallas county. Now, my readers, you crin form 
•an idea where Cahaba is situated. Here we put in many a c'reary 
hour, thinking of the old folks at home, and also of our sweethearts. 
Now, comrades, I will try to relate some incidents at Cahaba 
prison. The first thing I will relate how I fixed the rebs so that they 
did not get my knife, money nor silver renholder and gold pen. 
I thought I would risk them if they could find them on my person, 
i cut a hole in the bottom of my shoe sole, and pried it up and 



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slipped the money in there, and then pressed it down ag-ain as 
firm as ever, and my ^old pen, I cut a hole in the waistband of my 
breeches in front and slipped it in there and my knife, I put in my 
canteen, filled full of water, and they did not think of looking- there 
When they came to examine-me they did not find a thing- to con- 
fiiscate, and when they marched us into the prison, I had all my 
property safe, but when I came to get my knife out of the canteen, 
I had some fun. I could not get it out until I melted the top, and 
then the canteen was forever spoiled, so I held it over a fire until 
in melted and came apart. Then I thought I could make some 
use of it, so I g-ot a nail and sharpened it on a Dutch oven lid and 
punched it full of holds to sift my cornmeal, which appeared to me 
as though it was ground husk, cob and all. You see I was at no 
loss, for we had to have something- to sift our meal, and the other 
half I g-ave to some of Co. F boys of the 102d, and they thanked me 
many times. When I got inside I was astonished to see so many 
wild Yankees. There were about 2,500 men it prison at one time, 
and a great many had no blouses, some had no shirts and some no 
pants. I remember the first night in prison, we lay spoon fashion, 
ten or a dozen in a row, and when one turned over we all turned. 
We lay on the ground, and" some had no blankets, and it was get- 
ting pretty cold. The next morning when I got up, the first thing 
on the program was to hunt graybacks. They were more nu- 
merous than greenbacks and very easy to obtain. If I remember 
correctly, the first morning I found 86, and each morning fewer, 
and I do believe the graybacks the Johnnies carried were larger 
and fatter than the ones we carried. 

As to our rations, some days we drew, and some days not. 
We drew about a tinful of meal to the man, if all was right, and 
sometimes only halt a tinful, just as they felt like it; and some 
days we got meat, and some days none, and half of the time we 
had no salt. You remember that piece of meat they brought in 
that had an abscess as large as the crown of my hat. The pus or 
matter ran out over the meat as we cut close to it. I tell you it 
was a bad piece of meat and as poor as Job's turkey. It had no fat 
or tallow oo in. I will here state that we had the honor of eating 
a horse while in prison. They were taking this horse across the 
river andhe broke through a plank on the ferry boat and broke his 
leg, and then they killed him and brought the meat in for us to 
eat. It did not taste so bad, but very course and blue. 

About the 6th of March we were taken to Jackson, Miss., and 
that night I got sick and thought of going to the rebel hospital, 



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but one of my messmates, George Haas, told me not to go, as that 
would be the last of me. He said they would give me medicine 
that would kill me sure. So he made me some tea, likely penny- 
ropa/, and by morning- I felt a great deal better, and was ready to 
march with the rest to Vicksburg, I think it was about 45 miles. 
It took us near two days to make the trip. Finally we reached 
Big Black river, and there was a pontoon bridge to cross on, and 
a flag of truce at each end of the bridge. When we got across the 
bridge, we were in our own lines. Then we had four miles to pa- 
rol camp, near Vicksburg. Here we stayed about 35 days, and 
then we toak the steamer Sultana for Cairo. About 1,950 soldiers 
and between two and three hundred women and citizens and deck- 
hands. Before we left there was a steamer started about thirty 
minutes ahead with a load, and some of the boys wanted to go on 
that boat, R. C. Wood. But Gen, Dana was commanding the post 
and he would not let any of the boys on that boat. He said he 
wanted them all to go on one boat, so we had to obey our superior 
officers. The Sultana had nearly a load before we got on. There 
were thirty fat hogs on board, and thirty or forty condemned 
horses and mules that they were taking north to recruit and get 
in shape for the service, but when we got to Memphis, they took 
off the fat hogs and a number of boxes and 120 hogsheads of sugar, 
and then they proceeded up the river and stopped at a coal barge 
and took on 1,000 bushels of coal. When the boat was loaded with 
coal, we went on up the river and about eight miles above Mem- 
phis, one of the boilers exploded. Some one said there was a torpe- 
do thrown in the furnace, and some said that the boilers ran dry, 
but it seems that no one knows exactly the cause of the disaster. 

I can scarcely describe that disaster, nor no tougue can tell 
all the suffering. After we had lain six months in southern pris- 
on pens, and on our way home to God's country, we had to be 
torm from our peaceful slumbers, for it happened about 3 o'clock 
on the morning of April 27, 1865. 

When the explosion took place, I was asleep and heard no 
report, and the boys said it was equal f.o a cannon, and there was a 
great hole knocked through the cabin and hurricane decks, and 
both smoke stakes were knocked down, and broke part of the hur- 
ricane down on the banisters of the stairs, partly shutting off es- 
cape, and when some of the boys wakened me, I was wondering 
why the pilot did not steer the boat to the shore, put some of the 
boys said the boat was disabled and could not land. The boat 
w s flloating and drifting with the current; finally I was getting 



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wakeued up to the sense of my duty, and I looked on the water^ 
and saw a great many of my comrades grabbing- at whatever they 
could g-et a hold of. Sometimes eight or ten would g-et hold of one 
another, and down they would go. I finally made up my mind what 
to do; after I had taken off my shoes and stockings and blouse, 
and while I was doing this James Guard nnd Gideon Stine came tO' 
me, poor fellows, and begged for me to take them out, as they 
knew that I was a good swimmer, but I told them, "every fellow^ 
for himself," so they were both drowned. I was for a few min- 
utes standing and looking on; a person could hear cries and groans 
and curses, and some singing and some praving for God's sake 
to have mercy on their poor souls and take them ashore. lean 
scarcely help dropping a tear while describing this, one of the 
most disastrous catastrophes that ever happened in the United 
States. I shall here relate the words of one of ray company bovs 
said while coming up the river. This was Wesley Henderson. 
He came to me and said, "Jake, we are going home to see our ju- 
larkies, aint yon glad?" I told him that I was, but alas, that poor 
boy found a watery grave, and he was a most noble soldier. 

I will here relate a story that Wm. H. Ross told me after we 
got out and were coming home. He said that one of the small 
boats was thrown from the hurricane deck, and it landed bottons 
side up, and there was a fellow jumped down from the same deck, 
and he had a stick in bis hand, and he ran or panched a hole in that 
boat, and it was a sheet iron concern, and belonged to Capt. Mason 
commanding the boat, consequently with that hole in it, it would 
be worthless. Capt. Mason was a very good and kind man to the 
boys. He was all the time busy throwing down things for the 
boys to get hold of, barrels, boxes and bales of hay and cabin doors, 
but he lost his own lite; was either drowned or burned to death. 
I never saw him after the accident, and I don't think anybody else 
did. 

Well, comrades, I will tell you how I got out. I watched my 
chance so that no one could get hold of me. I stayed on^the boat 
for about 20 minutes looking at the poor boys in the water, and fi- 
nally I was compelled to jump off, as the boat was on fire, and I had 
rather drown than burn to death. I kept on my shirt, cap, pants 
and drawers, says I to myself, I don't think the Mississippi river 
can drown me, for I had swam Odell's lake many times before I 
went into the service of the United States. So I watched until f saw a 
clear spot, and then some of the boys wanted me to come to them, 
but I did not go. I thought they might get hold of me, so I swam 



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away from the boat a liMle way. and then I looked around and saw 
two small pieces of ' (Uirds up cloee against the side of the boat, so 
I swam back and stcured them and put them under my breast, or 
got astride of them, and, boys, you have no idea how they helped 
me. Well, I lit out for the timber. I could see the timber by the 
light of the boat. I reached the timber, but when I got there I 
could find no ground to stand on, so I got two rotten logs that were 
floating loose in the wood and stood on them, and held to the cot- 
ton wood brush above my head. I was in the water pretty near 
waist deep for four hours, and part ;of the time up to my head. 
Finally the boat burned to the water's edge and sank. Where I 
got out of the timber was on the Arkansas side, and there was the 
pilot sitting on a cabin door, and a poor soldier on a sapling. He 
had been burnt so that his knee cap was nearly ofl. i saw this and 
talked with him, but he was naked, and he had climbed a sapling, 
and finally he fell off the sapling and was lost to rise no more. As 
near as I can tell I swam about 2)4 miles. John Haley, one of my 
messmates, swam about nine miles. He got hold of a large rail 
and just floated down stream. I presume he could not guide it, 
as he was not a good swimmer, or else he could have landed soon- 
er. The name of the place of the explosion is Paf^s Hen and 
Chickens. The reason it is called this is because there are so many 
small islands. I believe there were eight of them, and the river 
was very high, and all these islands were coveredso that a person 
could not see them. Some time in the morning I saw a large dead 
tree floating and six or seven soldiers sitting on its roots and 
branches. I watched it for some time, but finally lost sight of it. 

I will here state to you a fact as it came to me about some of 
Co. E's boys from BellvlUe, Ohio. John Divelbiss was bured or 
scalded so that he was disabled from swim ming and knew it, so he 
begged forGod's sake forBilly Lockhart to throw him overboard, he 
preferred to drown rather than remain on board and burn to death, 
so there was another good natured soldier found a watery grave. 

Af tertaking us ofi^ on a picket boat, which came up the river, and 
got some hot cofl^ee and hardtack, I felt somewhat better, so this 
boat went on up the river picking up all the soldiers they could find. 
Finally they landed and I walked out on the plank and to my as- 
tonishment I saw eight women all in one row on the ground, whom 
they had taken off the boat, burned or scalded to death. After we 
had gathered up all the boys that were in the river and woods, we 
went back to Memphis, to the Soldiers' Home, but stayed only 
about four days, and then got a boat and started for Cairo, and 



we stayed but a day or two in tJbat place, and took tlie train for 
Mattoon, 111., and I never was treated so well in all my trials while im 
the army , as I was in Mattoon, 1 should liked to have stayed a month' 
there. Why the citizens just fed us on biscuit and chicken and 
sweet cake and pie and hot coffee, almost everythmg- imaginable- 
in the eating- line, and I send ten thousand thanks to them this day 
for their kindnes. Leaving Mattoon we passed through Terre 
Haute and Indianapalis, Ind., and then on to Columbus, Ohio, our 
native State. Here we stayed only a couple tveeks,. and finallv we 
received our commutation of rations and our final discharge from, 
the service of the United States Wheu I arrived home my aged par- 
ents were overcome w^ith joy, so glad to see me, not thinking ever to- 
see me again, after hearing of my being'taken risoner. My brothers. 
aud si&ters- were much pleased to see me, I had three brathers^ 
in the army besides myself, and two had come home before I did,, 
and one was yet back with his regiment. I. shall now bid you ali 
adiew. From your comrade, 

JACOB HOMER, 

Co. A, 102d O. V, I. 
Nashville, Holmes Co,, Ohio. 



OF 

REUBEN GREENFIELD 

WAS A member of Co. D, 102d O, V, I I enlisted August 11, 
1862. Remained with the command until Sept, 24, 1864; then 
1 was captured by Gens, Forest, Wheeler and Buford, com- 
bined at Athens, Ala., taken ;o Tuscumbia, then to Cherokee Sta- 
tion, and there waited for transportation. Then I was taken on 
the train and got as far as Clear Springs. There the rails spread 
apart and the engine buried itself, and such a horrible sight I nev- 
er saw in my life. There we remained for two days on account 
of the sick and wounded, and with the mangled and dead. Then 
we were taken to Corinth, Not a man vt-ould have gone, but was in 
hopes of gt tting something to eat. We laid at Corinth a week or 



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ten days without a gnrriTci arotind us. "We "baa plenty of chances 
fto escape., but were too nearly starved to death. From there we 
were taken to Wet-^t Point, and held five days, and then taken to 
Meridian. There we dug- out, and when discovered, th^y shipped 
us to Larkin's crossing, and from there to Selma, and from there 
to Cahaba, where the rest of the prisoners were in quarters, I 
entered one corner of the stockade about four o'clock, and before 
I got half through I was exhausted from the effects of the pine 
smoke. Our prison contained one acre of ground, and there were 
about 2,800 to 3,000 constantly. Our prison was formerly an old 
cotton warehouse. In the fall a heavy wind storm unroofed one- 
third of it, leaving two-thirds of the prison under shelter. When 
it was dry it was so dirty and dusty and smoky you could not tell 
the fourth man from you, unless you knew his voice. When it 
was wet, it was like a stock yard; we had to wade in mnd and slash 
up to our shoe tops. I saw many a man get up from his bed with 
the mud and water dripping from him like hogsoutof a mud pud" 
die; and about the graybacks, they were '*to numerous to men- 
tion," or say anything about. 

Our regalar rations were a pint of cornmeal a day, with all 
other dirt mixed in and they were not very particular if they 
missed us a day or two occasionally. Newyears day there were 
five men killed and prodded with bayonets. Maj. Carlin of the 71st 
Ohio was sent there, and he organised a squad to tunnel out. We 
started the centre of our prison, under a wall and worked 25 
nights, then the rebel guard discovered us and that put an end to 
it. The rebels put torpedos under the ground and told us now 
you Yankee s^ — s of b — s, if you want to tunnel, tunnel now. Then 
Maj. Carlin was removed from there. Then Capt. Hatch was 
captured at Chicamauga, and he saw a citizen killed and took his 
clothes and put them on, and passed as a citizen, and organ'" 
ized a band of Ohio and Indiana boys to raise a mutin}'^ to break 
out ot th e night of the 13th of February, and we succeeded in cap- 
turing all the inside guards. There were four guards at the door. 
We captured three and the fourth got away. There were on« 
hundred men organized to rush ont and capture the four pieces ot 
artillery planted for the door. They were double charged with 
grape and canister. V/hen the one guard got away, the one hun- 
men got weak in the knees and failed to capture the artillery. It 
was no time until the long roll was beaten in the rebel camp, and 
the old Major in command brought tivo pieces of artillery to the 
door and demanded the 25 guns that we had taken from their 



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g-uards, or he would blow us from "Hell to beeakfast." Some one 
of the boys replied "they are not ready to go to hell, but most d-d 
willing" to g"o to breakfast," and others trembled in their shoes 
and told them to hush. Then they brought their guards in 
and drove us all back to one end of the prison, then the Major 
g-ave full command to load their pieces except to fire. I never saw 
so many men of one mind as I did that morning. If they bad fired 
one volley it would have ki led a good many, but what would have 
been left, man for man, were all of one mind. They would have 
piled the guards, -and there would not have been a grease spot left 
of them. About seven o'clock we had roll call to see if any of them 
had made their escape. We bad roll call every morning by count- 
ing off. Then they gave us our orders for the ringleaders to be 
delivered to the authorities to be punished, if not, they would sto j 
the rations until it was done, but no one would respond. So they 
made efforts to find them, for one of the guards reported to them 
that he prodded one of us with his bayonet. Then they got five doc- 
tors and went through a close examination, but they failed to find 
the woundad man So many sores on them from lying on the 
ground and scurvey and itch, and eating of graybacks, they failed 
to find the wounded man. So they made us pass three times, 
man by man, and turn around and what few clothes we had to 
hold out with uplifted hands over our heads. The man had been 
wounded in the hand, so he wrapped his few duds around his hand 
so that they could not see the blood. But they failed in every at- 
tpmpt. Then they got hold of a young lad belonging to the 7ih 
Pa. Cav. and promised a parol of honor it he would tell who was 
engagod in the mutiny, and the first chance to our lines. Captain 
Hatch was a very nice looking man, but he disguised himself so that 
I hardly knew him. They continued until they had fourteen pri- 
vates, and they kept them the rest of the winter in the cell. When 
we were liberated they turned the privates with the rest, and de- 
tained Capt. Hatch and tried and convicted him as a spy. 

On the 28th of February it commenced with a heavy rain and 
rained until the Alabama river overflowed for thirty or forty miles 
back and brought the water up in our prison, for we were within a 
few rods of the bank, and the rebels came into the prison in canoes. 
Some of the boys asked Col. Jones if we could not get up in the town 
in upper stories of the houses, but the answer was, "when ver my 
guards wade in water up to their knees up on the stockade, we'll 
talk of letting you little Yanks out.'* Some made plaforms of 
what they could, while others had to stand right. in the water un- 




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nDtil it almost ran into our motitb' . For four days we hadn't a 
bite to eat, nor no sleep. Then we heard a boat coming- up the 
river. In a short time a rebel officer told us to fall into line, and 
some of us marched out, and I got on the second boat load. As 
we went down the river, the rebels had two64-pound g-uns on 
the boat taking- them to Mobile, and I got two rat tail files and 
•some of the boys spiked the guns. When we got within a few 
miles of Mobile, there was a little schooner met us and ordered us 
up the Tombigbee river, and from there were sent to Jackson, 
Miss., and from there we had to foot it to the Big Black river, four 
miles from Vicksbvrg. There was twenty-one of Co. D captured; 
two died in prison, then the rest were put aboard the Sultana, and 
fifteen pprished on the Sultana, and four of us lived to come home. 

REUBEN GREENFIELD. 
Ontario, Richland Co. Ohio. 



PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 

OF 

HAMON W. CHRISTINE 

WAS captured Sept, 24, 1864, at Athens, Ala. Was taken to Ca- 
haba, Ala., where we remained six months. Our fare con- 
sisted of corn and cob chopped together, and once in a while 
some poor beef that yon could smell before it reached the Inside of 
the prison fence. Sometimes we had salt, but a very small quan- 
tity. Our beds were the ground with nothing over or under us' 
until along- about February, our government sent ns some clothing-, 
but the rebels helped themselves first. 

We had chances of buying sweet potatoes which we paid at 
the rate of $4.00 per bushel, and sweet cake made of sorghur^i mo- 
lasses at $2.00 per cake, size 4x6 inches, and as black as the ace of 
spades. White bread a dollar a loaf, the size of a five cent loaf of 
northern bread. 

We received $9.00 of Confederate money from the officers who 
-^■^ere released on parole. The money was divided up among- the 
boys of the 102d, and some of us sold our buttons, for which we re- 



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ceived pi'ices from 25 to 50 cents each. Cbuck-a-luck o-ames were 
carried on and money won from the rebs was loaned out S2.00 for 
$1.00 in greenbacks when we returned home. Stealing was carried 
on to a great extent. You could not la)' a pan or anything down 
and turn around but someone had it. 

Efforts to escape were indulged in to some extent. At one 
time a tunnel was in operation, and one more night would have 
seen daylight, but spies reported the case and that sto'-ped the 
tunneling. At another time a party of about IGO captured all the 
inside guards and would have escaped, but they were all alarmed. 
Some wanted to go and others not to risk it. So that fell through. 
The hardest time we had while in prison, was the last three days 
and nights, when the river overflowed and covered our prison. 
Not less than a foot of water all over the prison. We carried in 
cord wood and placed two sticks on the ground and two across, un- 
til it was high enough out of the water, so four of us could sit on it 
with our backs to one another, and our legs banging in the water. 
That way we sat for the three days and nights. 

We left prison on the 6th of March, and took boat to the mouth 
of the Tombigbee river, and from there to Gainesville, where we 
took cars for Meridian, Miss., and from there to Vicksburg, where 
we went into camp under the old flag, but still under an officer of 
the Confederacy, under an agreement with our people. After 
Lincoln was killed the rebs were run over the river, and Gen. Da- 
na placed us on the steamer Sultana, and sent us to Memphis, and 
on leaving there on the morning of April 27, 1865, our boat was 
blown up by a torpedo placed in the coal at the coalery north of 
Memphis, and out of 2,300 men, about 700 were saved. I will say 
they were the happiest set of men I saw, AH their talk was home, 
but in less time than telling it, they were sent to eternity. Our 
regiment had 105 men on board, and 73 were lost, and out of our 
Co. H, 14 men were on board, and three were saved. We could 
not have lost so many in battle in the same time. I was lying on 
the hurricane deck with several others of our regiment, when the 
boat blew up. I got down in the cook house, and got a barrel with 
one head out. I threw it out and jumped, but got into a crowd 
and felt sure I would be pulled under, so I got back on the boat, 
and stripped off and jump again, when the wheel house fell out 
and took me under, but I dove and got out and I got a plank and 
with a young fellocv belonging to a Tennessee regiment, whohad a 
plank also, we hitched together and- floated down stream toward 
Memphis. Although we did not know then where we were, after 



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?geiUng down about three miles, another man got on. He proved 
to be Elias Hines, of the 18th Mich. The first that got on became 
^o bad that he did not know anything, and finally fell off. when we 
got into a whirligig, which carried us around pretty fast. After 
that we floated down the river until we reached Memphis, nine miles 
from the wreck. We were taken up by some of the city firemen, 
g-oing out in boats to gather these men up. We were taken to the 
hospital for clothing and kept there, the doctor claiming we would 
more than likely be sick, anc4 made us stay in three days. We took 
the boat Belle St. Louis for Cairo, and from there to Mattoon, 111., 
and were taken in by the citizens and fed and treated more like 
white folks tnan since leaving home in 1862. We left there for 
Indianapolis and from there to Columbus, where, after tea or fif- 
teen days were mustered out by order from the War Department. 
1 was married when I enlisted, and after returning home, I 
went into the lumber yard at Wooster until 186(», and then in the 
McDonald shops. In 1869 my wifedied, leaving me two boys larger 
than I am, and fine boys they are. I married again and moved to 
Columbus, O., and am engaged in the Ry. Mail service for the Pan- 
handle road. Am doing finely, as well as hard times can allow. 

W. H. CHRISTINE. 



Prison Experience oi George Nouse 

Plimpton, Holmes Co. Ohio, August 22, 1887. 
I will endeavor to give you a few lines. In that fight at Athens, 
I was captured Sept. 24, 1864, and vvas a prisoner seven months and 
four days. I was wounded in the left wrist. I never had any- 
thing done to it in the way of dressing the wound until three days 
after I was captured. The first prison that I was in was the Ca- 
baba on the Alabama river. I was in that prison two month. 
From there a lot of sick and wounded were taken out with the un- 
derstanding that we would be exchanged at Savannah, O3., but 
when we got to Macon, W. T. Sherman was on his march to the 
sea. V/e were-taken out of the cars and put in a stockade over nigiit. 
The next day the rebel doctor came in and examined the sick and 
wounded. I was taken to the hospital, and I was there over four 
months. While in this same hospital I saw a man with hair as 
]'. vig as my hand. The graybacks got into his hair, and the nurse 
cut his hair, and he had to stop every once in a while to scrape the 



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^um off the shears before the shears wonld cat throug^h his hair, 
and after he got his hair cut he went out behind the hospital and 
scratched the lice of his bead. The rebel guard saw the lice from 
the platform that was around the hospital. That man died. land 
some of the 102d were taken to Andersonville. We were only m 
five days. From there they ran us, as we supposed in the direction- 
of Atlanta, but from some cause or other, they did not like that lo- 
calitvj tney either backed tack, or turned around, and I expected 
that I would have another chance at Andersonville, but they never 
stopped, but took us to a place called Baldwin, in Floriday. In this 
place I was about two weeks, and in an exchange or parole camp^ 
and while here one night the rebels whooped and yelled like 
demons. The next morning I asked them what the rnmpus waS' 
about last night. They told me that such a State had come back 
into the Union, and that Lee had surrendered to Grant. 

After Lee had surrendered, they turned us loose at Baldwiuy 
and some of the rebel guards went with us intoour lines and stayed. 
That was at Jacksonville, Florida. When I got there, negroes were 
there. They gave us of thei r rations, and our Government issued 
us rations. One man died and more were sick. We laid along the 
St Johns river about two weeks, and from there took a steamer to 
the Atlantic. Took Ocean steamer to Anapolis, Md. Was on ocean 
four days and nights. From Anapoilis took B. & O R. R. Crossed 
the Ohio and went to Camp Chase, O. Was in Camp Chase four 
weeks. Discharged June 12, 1865. 

GEORGE NOUSE. 



REMINISCENCES 



ESCAPED FROM THE JOHNNIES 

ON THE 2d day of September, 1864, the 102d boarded a train 
of box cars at Bellefonte, Ala., to be carried to the scene 
of depredations by Gen. Wheeler in the vicinity of Pulas- 
ki, Tenn. Space on the top of the cars was the best the train could 
afford us, and the day being very hot, developed fever and ague 
in many who were on the verge of the disease. 

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the sick, to tlie ntitnbp" x'^f 33, in ati improvised bospttal. Dr. Al- 
!bans, the reg mental hospital steward, being- placed in charge of it. 
Here we did fairly well until, Sept. 23, when the garrison of the 
rpost was attacked by Gen. Forest. About an hour before sunset 
we noticed skirmishing along the picket line, about a half mile dis- 
tant from the hospital. At the same time the express and passen- 
ger train arrived from Nashville. Finding communication south- 
ward cut off, the locomotive was detached from the train and ran 
down the track to ascertain che trouble. It returned in a short 
time, having found the track torn up, or being torn up. By this 
time retreat was impossible as well. So the train fell into the 
ihandsof Foresf^s command, and later applied the torch to it. 

Curious to see and know what was going on, all the inmates of 
the hospital, who were able, had gone a short distance from the 
building to a point where a good sight could be had of the skir- 
mishing. Noticing the firing drawing nearer and more to our 
rear, prudence dictated my returning to the hospital. Before quite 
reaching the building, a troop of rebel cavalry came pouring from 
the rear and began firing at us. I succeded in reaching the build- 
ing, but all the rest on the outside were at once made prisoners. 

The house used for the hospital was an old style brick build- 
ing, with entry through the middle from front to rear, which gave 
place also for the stairway. The doctor used for his office a room 
on the second floor, at the head of the stairs. In hurrying into the 
building, without having any particular motive in mind, unless to 
get as far as possible from the Johnnies, I entered this room. I 
found in this room, besides the doctor, a private of our regiment, 
whom I am not now able to name, and a negro boy. The rebels 
almost immediately entered this room. In my desperation to es- 
cape capture, I ran to a small fire place at the right of the room. 
Quickly reaching in, I found in the flew, above the arch, two ledg- 
es, one two feet above the other. No quicker thought than done, 
I vras perched upon these. In a minute more, several of the in- 
truders came to the door with "do you surrender?" "Yes, "the doc- 
tor replied. "Have you any arms?'' "None." This was the last I 
heard of the doctor until the next morning. The room was now 
vacant, and there was but little noise below, but later in the eve- 
ning and during the night, the room was frequently entered by 
persons, as I supposed, on the search of something, probably booty. 
Well, along toward midnight, from the light reflected down the 
chimney from the sky, I suspected the rebels had fired some build- 
ings, which, I learned later, was the building containing the com- 



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missary and quartermaster stores, and beside some railroad 
property was destroyed. Later a heavy tbuncier storm passed 
over the place, after which the air became very cool, making- me 
uncomfortable, not being- suitably clothed. I also suffered froms 
my cramped situation. The long-, weary night finally g-ave way to 
the dawn of another day. As soon as it was sufficiently light, a 
battery of field pieces, planted near the hospilal, began to play on 
the fort, distant about a half mile, apprising me of the fact that 
more than a guerrilla band was present. A brief time was suffi- 
cient for the battery to do its work; for, as I learned later, the fort 
succumbed without replying. A little later, I heard the rattle of 
musketry and the yell of the charging rebs, also heard the doctor 
talking with the rebel officers about the engagement. Rebel sur- 
geons made the room a sort of headquarters. After the fighting 
ceased several wounded Johnnies were brought into the room. It 
being uncomfortably cool, a well meaning attendant suggested ma- 
king a fire. "No," said Dr. Albans, "we have a large room on the 
other side of the hall which is warm, comfortable and furnished 
with cots. We will place the men in that; this is my room and I 
don't want any fire." Nothing more was said about roasting me. 

Once during the afternoon, while no one else was in the room, 
the doctor came to the fireplace and inquired if I wanted anything. 
I said, "nothing but a drink." This he gave me. He told me the 
rebels would leave in the evening. Toward evening the room was 
left to me alone, seldom any one coming in. As it was turning dark, 
I could hear the maneuvering of battallions and other voices sug- 
gesting departing Johnnies. About an hour after dark the doc- 
tor came to the chimney and told me to come down, and I did, at 
once, being as black as any darkey in Alabama. For a time 1 was 
unable to stand; by limbs having become numb and almost rigid. 
The doctor procured water for me with which I restored myself 
to the semblance of a white man. Then I was given a cot in the 
room before mentioned, also a bite of musty bread to break my 
fast, and I was happy. 

The next morning, in passing out of the house the first ob- 
ject to meet my eyes was lour rebs stretched out on the floor of 
the porch who were taking their last long sleep, in consequence of 
the previous day's sport. During the remainder of my stay at 
A'..hens I did duty as a nurse, and as such had my hands full. 

The rebels, as might be expected, carried off all our supplies, 
leaving us nothing whatever to eat. This want, however, was 
royally met by the ladies of the place, coming in with loaded bas- 



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kets of dainties, such ns I had not supposed the South capable of 
producing-. The tb< i o loyalty of the citizens to the Southern 
cause made the surprise all the greater. 

The affray rid me of my knapsack and contents, which includ- 
ed my watch, but since I was safe, I cared little for that. The se- 
quel proved that had I been captured, I should never have re- 
turned home, as this episode was followed by a very severe sick- 
ness, from which [ did not recover for several months. 

JOHN LONGENECKER, 

Willmot, Ohio. Sergeant Co. A, 102d O. V. I. 



Benton Harbor, Mich., Dec. 10, 1907. 
G. S. ScHMUTZ, Historian. 

Dear Comrade — The following are a few incidents which I 
have not forgotten, which if not worth publishing will do no harm 
to send them. 

When in camp at Mansfield we drew light bread, but as I had 
no butter to spread on it, I thought it was poor living, but I con- 
soled myself that when we drew hardtack, I would have a feast. 
When we arrived at Covington, we drew rations. I was delighted 
and threw my light bread out of the window. To my horror I 
found hardtack had no taste, neither could I bite them, but some 
one found it out before I did, as my light bread was gone tvhen I 
returned to get it, so I had to make the best of my hardtack by ex- 
perimenting and starving myself until I could eat them. 

When the 102d was at Covington waiting to have a brush with 
Gen. Bragg, one night we were called in line of battle. After 
waiting for some time for the rebs, the of&cers complimented the 
boys for their bravery and for forming in line so quickly. The 
next day the boys were taken out to discharge the loads of their 
guns, many of them would not go off. It was discovered that the 
bullet end of the cartridge had been put in first. 

When the 102d was stationed at Clarksville, Tenn,, the regi. 
ment was furnished horses to do some scouting. I,'with the rest 
of the boys, was anxious to take part in the fun. The scouting 
company was made up by volunteers. I had just come in from 
picket, and volunteered to go out that night. We rode about 40 
miles, captured a few rebels, fed our horses and returned to camp 
next day. We had the privilege of cleaning our horses. I made 
a poor selection — had a hard rider. It caused me a great deal of 



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pain to ride. I did not dare to walk as I could not keep trp. Whera 
we arrived in camp 1 could hardly walk, bui was detailed to go on 
picket. I had to go, as I volunteered to go on scout. That was. 
the last time I volunteered to go on scout. 

Another incident, which some of the boys of the 102d were- 
ccnnected, and of which I was an eye witness, occurred while the 
102d with some other regiments, amounting in all to about 2,000, 
were stationed at Decatur, Ala, When Gen, Hood besieged the 
fort at that place, one night, the rebels advanced their lines to a 
short distance of the fort, throwing up fortifications. Some of 
the boys, amounting- to about 40, about headquarters, formed 
themselves into a company, marched down the Tennessee river,, 
under cover of its banks, until to the rear of the rebs' fortifications^ 
made a charge on their works, having arranged to have all the 
heavy guns fired at the same time. One hundred nineteen rebels 
threw down their arms and were captured before the trick was 
discovered. The rebels said "that was another d — • — d Yankee 
trick." 

JACOB STRONE. 



Experience of Joseph Awkerman 

Y REQUEST I shall endeavor to write a reminiscence of the 
Civil War. I enlisted August 9, 1862, in Co. I, 102d O. V. I. 
Was mustered into service Sept. 6, for three years, unless 
sooner discharged My subject will be the sick in camp and hos- 
pital. We were transported to Louisvile, then the army started to 
drive Bragg out of Kentucky. We marched through Sbelbyville, 
Frankfort, Rough and Ready, Lawrenceburg, Silvisa, Danville and 
Crab Orchard; then retraced our steps to Danville, then took a 
south-west direction through Perryyille, Lebanon, Mumfordsville, 
Cave City to Bowling Green. Now, by hard marching, not much 
to eat and drinking pond water, (these ponds were depressed plac- 
es in the ground, from one-fourth acre to two or three acres. Some 
had springs in them, but no outlet). Horses drank from these 
sink holes, and by the time infantry came up, it would not be very 
desirable to drink, but ours was Hopkin's choice. Now the read- 
er can readily imagine the kind of water we had to drink and cook 
with. We were not in a very healthy condition. 

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o^t, cou]d hardly set one foot before the other, and my feet were 
blistered and skin rubbed off that they were nearly raw when dis- 
missed. I took ray blanket and knapsack, made a place to lie down 
(about one o'clock p. m.) and laid down and never g-ot up until just 
at sun set. I g-ot up and made preparation for something- to eat, 
but my canteen was empty, and had to g-o to Baron river to get 
water, distantabout one fourth mile. Got back, but my feet were so 
yore that I could hardly walk. I made a tin cupful of coffee; had a 
piece of a cracker and a small piece of meat, and had asmall feast 
of my own, never once thought of inviting my near neighbors. I 
i-elt better, after drinking some coffee. 

Now reader, please go with me to see ra*^ put out my wash. 
I gathered up my duds and about a half bar of soap, and started 
f(jr the river. Got close down to the water, used the river for my 
washtub. I applied plenty of soap and rubbed to ray hearts con- 
tent. I know I got them clean, for I did the work myself. The 
reader may think he wonld have done different, but a little expe- 
rience would have settled that question. 

By this time tht-re was a good many sick, caused by hard 
marching, short rations, bad water and exposure to the weather. 
We will notice some cases in camp; a person could see lying- 
around almost anywhere in all kinds of condition. One certain 
boy had been lying- around. I passed by where he was Iving; his 
moaning could be heard quite a distance. I asked him what was 
the matter. He g-ave me no answer. I knew his circumstances. 
He ought never tohave enlisted. In a few weeks he was discharged. 
He is still living-, aged 82 years. Will mention another case. He 
was a very reserved character.- Seldom speaks unless spoken to. 
He got sick in camp. Was lying around, could hardly drag him- 
self around, and all the time getting worse. As time went on, he 
g-ot weaker, finally g-ot so weak and not able to help himself, and one 
evening I was sitting by the same fire, 1 noticed he was deliriaus. 
He got to talking to me like I was one of the same family. His 
talk was about home affairs, and was all mixed up. I reported to 
his Captain (this was in the evening). The next forenoon he was 
taken to the hospital. 

All this time we had no shelter, no more than the clouds, and 
they would frequently spring a leak. This boy died in about three 
days. I will now give my own experience. I was in the same box 
with the rest; was on duty about every other day. I was entirely 
->'orn out when I got here, and never g-ot rested up. About this 
lime a detail was made to go to Russellville, and it fell to my lot 



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to g-o witn otliers. We were pnf on Hat cars, and tFiong-ht [t qnhe a 
treat, rt was something- out of the ordinary to sfet to ride. We g<^t 
there about an hour after dark, an<l went out in!o a field witb 
clouds for ?^he]ter. About daylight it began to rain, and kept orr 
until near noon. There was an old tobacco shed; we got under 
that, bnt it was hardly large enough to shelter all. I got a little 
damp myself, but in the meantiine the olScers found better quar- 
ters, a vacated hotel and took possession of it. We occupied that 
the next 24 hours. All this time I could hardly get around, felt 
sick and worn out. I thought myself happy in- my new quarters. 

I had a warm fire, but fate was against me a.gain. Capt.M 

called us out in line, called the roll, and bad written a lot of rule& 
and regulations, read them to us, and at the same time it was rain- 
ing very hard. I got w^et to the skin. He dismissed us when he got 
through, and we went to our quarters. I sat down and pulled off 
my boots, wrung the water out of my socks. The reader can im- 
agine that I got a good bath, being sick at the same time. I said a 

few awkward words about. Capt M , but not in his presence. 

The next thing was to dry my clothes, but alas, my fate was again 
sealed, I was detailed for guard duty. The weather was chilly 
and my clothes dripping wet. Our orders we'e to guard a well of 
water, to keep people from putting poison in it, and at the same 
time two families were using water out of it, "put poison in it to 
kill you'ns; it will kill we'ns too," (lots of truth in it). And anoth- 
was to watch people and arrest them. The weather cleared off in 
the evening, turned colder and through the night a heavy frost 
fell. Imagine yourself standingout in the dark hours of the night, 
two hours at a time with wet clothing, the ground white with frost 
and sick too. If your imagination is good, you then can realize my 
condition. Next morning word came that the regiment had come. 
We were relieved from duty and went to camp. Ifelt much worse, 
my clothes needed laundering and no one to do it for me, so Joe 
had to do it himself. I went to a small creek near by, used it for 
my Vv^ash tub. Again I used plenty of soap and did lots of hard 
rubbing. I got the largest chunks of dirt out and the rest I left in 
for better times, but that was a long time coming. By this time 
my clothes got dry on my back, but I felt the effects of it. The next 
day I went on duty again. I could hardly drag myself, but I braced 
up and got through on that tour. Was in camp another 24 hours, 
went on guard again and did duty through the day, but when eve- 
ning came, I had to give up. We had our quarters in an old school 
house; it was tolerably comfortable. I was excused from further 



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cluty, I laid do%vnan(l re.slcd lolerab]}' weil that nit^bt. Next 
siiorning- I went to camp and reported to the doctor. He excused 
sue from dut)', and when the reg-iment came they brought tents, 
^vhlch all enj -yed, but the regiment so -n got orders to march, but 
<iid not go uwtii the next day. I turned over my gun and accouter- 
ments to the orderly sergeant, laid down, but next morning every- 
body was busy wiih brea.kfast or getting their knapsacks ready. 
About this time orders came to strike teats, and in a few minutes 
fcvery tent was duwn and rolled up ready to be put on wao-ons. 
Ab(-ut this time I began to think seriously about myself. I went 
to our company oflicer and told him I was not able to march. He 
requested me to get in that ambulance standing near by, but vvben 

I got there, the driver said 1 must get an order from officer F 

1 turned to speak to him and at the same time the regimental com- 
mander, not Col. Given said: "I am afraid a good many of these 
boys are playing <;ff, and are just as able to march as the rest of 
the boys." (He had a horse to ride.) I turned to officer F — again 
to speak to him. He grinned and turned bis back, and I felt 
badly discouraged, for I needed medical aid and a place to lie down. 
This officer I never saw again and soon went- home and died. I 
stayed with the regiment uaul its discharge, but he has been dead 
long years, and after a lapse of forty-five years, I am here yet, a 
living inoaumeot of God's mercy. The regiment left in a few min- 
utes. This occurred about December 20. The sick staid there 
nntil evening under an officer. In the meantime, I got delirious 
uiy comrades kept me from wandering off. In the evenino- we o-ot 
on some flat cars and were taken out about five miles to a place 
called Whippoorwiil.. Wecariiped in a barn close by. The next 
morning we went to where a company ol our regiment was guard- 
ing some bridge builders. I must depeudoa what my comrades 
told of what occurred, as my m.ind was much clouded, yet I was on 
ray feet most of the time. I was there about two days; got sev- 
eral bad [alls. The officer in charge now took it in hand to send me 
to the hospital, the same I v/as to go to at first. He wrote out a 
pass for the two comrades that went with me and an order to take 
me to the hospital. I remember getting on a flat car and stor'Jnu-, 
but that ^vas my last recollentioa. They took me to the hospitai, 
the Surgeon refused me, as the rooms were full. The comrades 
had to go back;' they couldn't take me back, so they took me into 
the hospital and left, and comrades took my blanket and knapsack 
r -d made a bed on the floor and laid me down. This occurred 
ia the evening. The doctor never came to see me until the next 



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evening-. He examined me and never gave me any medicine for 24 
hours after that, making- 48 hours from the time I got there before 
I received treatment. You must think 1 had a mulish constitu- 
tion to stand all that, or was I like a cat? had nine lives. The holi- 
days came on, but they were a blank to me. My first recolection, 
after leaving- Whipporwill, I was lying in bed and a comrade came 
toray bed and spoke tome. I thought I had just wakened up. 
When be asked me bow I felt, 'I answered, ^'I feel all right." I 
asked him why that question, ''You have been verv sick." I tried 
to sit up in bed, tut my head was too heavy, neither could I raise 
my hands or feet. "Four weeks ago you laid down here with the 
typhoid fever; and have lain here ever since. He then asked if I 
wanted a letter written home. He left me, and my mind left me 
also, forgot all about the letter, but he returned and read it to me. 
I received an answer long before they gave it to me. I was still 
delirious most of the time. These sane spells came more frequent 
as time passed on. I got bed sores on my hips and back. I began 
to realize my condition, and my mind had become rational. I suf- 
fered most excrutiating pains for several weeks, and ithas followed 
me to this day. My bunk was an ordinary one made by a carpen- 
ter; a corn husk matress, g-overument blankets for a sheet and 
blanket for cover, and horse bair pillow. I went there between 
December 20 and 30, and stayed until about the first of April, and 
my clothing never was changed, and I don't remember that I ever 
was washed until I washed myself, and my bed was infested by 
one of the plagues of Egypt. My vermin would promenade over 
my bed regardless of my feelings. 

My fare was soft bread, bean soup, boiled beef, rice and coffee 
most ot the time, and a few messes of mnsh and milk. We would 
not continue to narrate all the hardships of a soldier's life, but rath- 
er turn to the fruits of our sacrifice. What would have been the con- 
dition of our country to-day but for the boys in blue. Sectional 
strife has been swept away, and we have no North, no South, but 
our glorious banner floats over a united and happy people, and 
may no traitor's hand deface the blue field, nor displace a star un- 
til God shall blow out the Sun and call the nations to judgment. 

We feel that our comrades did not die in vain, but our nation is 
calling for thousandsof true men to-day, not to take up arms of 
carnality, but of truth and honesty to fill the places of the humblest 
position to the highest in the gift of man. 

JOSEPH AWKERMAN. 

Poneta, Wells Co., Ind. 



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SILAS B. JOHNSTON 

SILAS B. JOHNSTON, 1st Lieutenant of Co. F. 102d O. V. L, enlisted as 
a private in tlie month of Aug-ust, 1%2, in Wooster, Ohio, and proceed- 
ed with the company to camp at Mansfield, where upon the rppoint- 
ment of the non-commissioned officers, he was made 2d Sergeant, and a few 
weeks later was promoted to 1st Sergeant, and served in that capacity in the 
chase after Brag-g- through Kentucky. When the regiment left Russelville 
for Clarksville, being unable to march, he was left in the hospital at the first 
named place, remaining there some six weeks or two months. 

While in hospital he received notice of promotion and rejoined the regi7 
ment and was immediately assigned to duty as First Lieutenant. Accompa- 
nying the regiment to Nashville, he performed the customary duties of his of- 
fice, and on several occasions served on Boards of Survey, as junior officer, 
and making the reports of said Board. Also served as junior member of a 
Court Martial, and on the assignment of Maj. Elliott co command of Military 
Prison at Nashville, succeded him as one of the Drill Masters of the regiment, 
his duty being to instruct and drill the non-commissioned officers of all the 
companies. He acted as Adjutant on two or three occasions during the sick- 
ness of that officer. When the regiment arrived at Tullahoma, Lieut. John* 
ston was ordered by Col. Given, commander of the Post, to relieve the Post 
Commissar}^ and assume the duties of that office. When the regiment left that 
station he reinained there as Post Commissary by order of Gens. Milroy and 
Paine. Making an effort to be relieved to join his regiment in A.labama, he 
was ordered to report at Nashviile to Col. Porter, Chief commissary on the 
staff of Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, who ordered him to report again at Tullahoma 
and await orders. Three days later, orders came for him to report at Chatta- 
nooga and assigned to duty as acting Commissary of Subsistence in the De- 
partment of the Cumberland. He remained in Chattanooga several months, 
and was then ordered to Marietta, and from there to Atlanta, Ga. , during the 
siege of that place, then again returned to Chattanooga, where he was or- 
dered to receipt for and deliver to Gen. Sherman at Atlanta 4,000 head of beef 
cattle before the commencement of the march to the sea. 

Two thousand troops accompanied the imn ense procession as guard and 
escort. The Lieutenant's orders were to march about eight miles each day, 
camping for the night near a stream of water if possible. On one occasion 
the march was extended to about fifteen miles. About one week from the 
time of starting, Resacca, Ga. , was reached, and, as Sherman was engaged 
in a hunt for Gen. Hood, Lieut. Johnston was ordered to proceed no further, 
and deviver the cattle to Capt. Segman, at Resacca and himself return to 
Chattanooga. The order of proceedure will help the reader to form some 
idea of the immensity of the procession. The cattle were started as early as 
possible each morning. The Lieutenant remained in camp until the entire 
herd was on the move, except such as were too much exhausted to march, and 
he ordered these to be shot to prevent their falling into the hands of the rebels. 
He then started for the head of the column, riding at an easy lope, and never 
reached the head of the column before noon, and never saw both ends of the 
herd from the same point. Camp for the night was selected near two o'clock 
as possible, and then it was after dark before the rear was in sight. 

Having turned over to Capt. Segman at Resacca all the cattle, horses 



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and mules which had been ridden by the officers, seventeen in nnmber, wag:- 
ons and camp g-arrison equipage. The Lieutenant started for the depot to take 
the first train for Chattanoog-a, and was informed that no trains were running-, 
as Gen. Sherman had ordered the track torn up, but was told that if he could 
reach Dalton, a train could be had to Chattanooga', but there was no way to 
reach Dalton but on foot and alone. Starting immediatelj' on the railroad 
track, he reached a bouse near night and sought lodging for the night, and 
found that his host was a deserter from the rebel army. In the morning, be- 
fore starting, he was cautioned not to leave the railrord, as the woods were 
lull of bushwhackers, but was informed by some guards, which had been 
placed in the morning that they had orders to allow no one to walk upon the 
track. He was then compelled to take to the vvo;.:ds, as there was no wagon 
or other roads nearer than three miles in the direction of Dalton. He was not 
armed except a revolver, but passed through the v.-oods without accident, but 
jus,t as he emerged upon the wagon road and reached the brow of the hill, 
which had before concealed him from view, he saw three heavily armed men 
in regular bushwhacker dress, endeavoring to get a mule out of the gutter at 
the side of the road. Thej' saw him at the same time. He beckoned to the 
rear and in aloud voice commanded, "Forward, doublequick, march!" and 
started tov/ard them on the run. They immediately ran into the woods, and 
he passed quickly by, and just as he was expecting the bullets to commence 
coming, he met a small body of soldiers with some prisoners. Proceeding 
on his way he arrived safely at Dalton in time to take a freight train to 
Chattanooga that night. 

Shortly after this he returned to his home on a fifteen day furlough, and 
on returning, found Hood at Nashville. He consquently was obliged to defer 
his return to Chattanooga and remain in Nashville until Hood was driven from 
tiie city by Gen. Thomas's splendid victory, Returning to Chattanooga, he 
asked to be relieved in the spring and rejoin his regiment at Decatur, Ala., 
and was asked to relieve Lieut. Lamb as Post Commissar}', which he held 
until the close of the service. He then returned to his temporary home in 
Wilmot, Stark Co., Ohio. 



LIEUTENANT GEORGE C McCONNELL 

^--—^ EORGE C. McONNELL, enlisted Augusts, 1802, in Co. K, 102d O. 
V. I. He had previously served in the Kith O. V. I., Co. B, under 
Lincoln's first call, having mastered 'Hardee's Tactics" of drilling 
and manuel of arms in 1861. On entering camp at Mansfield he was imme- 
diately put to drilling the company, and proved very efficient in the work, 
so much so tiiat he received the thanks of Col. Given. 

In the winter of 1862 and 1863 he was sent home to recruit for the regiment 
and received a commission as 2d Lieutenant from Governor Brough, of Ohio. 
He was afterwards called to do special service by the commander of the regi- 
ment. He was continually in line of outy from enlistment until the fall of 
lh65, When he wa^s sent to the hospital at Nashville, Louisville and New Al- 



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bany. In Febrviary, 1865. he was detailed to make out pay rolls for the hos- 
pital, and afterwards tT make out discharges for all inmates, about 400. 

He was the first nuui hit by the enemy's shells in the first day's fight 
at Decatur, Al i. , before he entered the fort^ and was hit twice while inside 
of the fort, on third day's fighting; both balls striking him on the hip, and in 
space of two minutes, but the bullets were too near spent to put him out of 
action. 



CAPTAIN A. W. LOBACK 

CAPTAIN A. W. LOBACK was captured on the 24th day of September 
1864, at Athens, Ala. He was hit by a rebel bullet in the neck and 
left on the field for dead at least one hour. He was taken to Enter- 
prise, Miss., and there paroled for a time, then taken to Memphis, and then 
paroled and sent to Benton Barracks, Mo., and from there sent to Camp Chase, 
Ohio, where he arrived on the iVth day of December, 1864. He receivee a tel^ 
egraph notice of his exchange, and rejjorted for orders and started for the 
regiment, then at Decatur, where he arrived on the 2d day of January, 1865. 
He was yet suffering from the wound on the neck, which he received when he 
was csptured, and is troubled with it up to the present tim.e. He remained 
with his company and regiment until his term of service expired, when he was 
honorably mustered out on the 30th day of June, 1865, at Nashville. 

Capt. Loback served from the 22d day of April, 1861, to the 18th day of 
August, 18G1. in Co. I, 16th O. V.M., in three months service as 1st Lieu- 
tenant. 

After Capt. Loback returned home from the three mont's service, he en- 
gaged in carpenter and joiner work, and was foreman in the car shop. Then 
worked in the agriculure works, then was car inspector on the B. & O . and is 
now living on a nice little farm of 50 acres. He is unable to farm on account 
of disabilities received in the army. He enjoj's good health except from disa- 
bilities. Capt. Loback has done a great deal of work for the boys in getting 
pensions and is willing to do more. 



COMPANY E, io2d O, V. L 

THIS COMPANY was revised at Bevlville, Richland Co., Ohio, by August 
W. Loback, between the 1st and 21st of August 1862. It was ordered 
to Camp Mansfield near Mansfield, Ohio, on the 21st of August. Was 
examined and organized on the 22d, and on the 3d of September the regiment 
was armed and equipped with Austrian rifles, and on the 5th the regiment 
was ordered to Covington, Ky., by the Adj. Gen. of Ohio. 

On the oth the company was paid $50 to ea.ch man as county bounty; on 
the 6th the regiment was paid $25 of the state bountyj $13, one month's pay 



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and $2 bonus, making- f50, Maj. C. T. Davis, paymaster. On the 8fh Regiment 
was ordered to Camp Wallace, Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace in command at Cov- 
ington. Was in line of battle from the 8th to the 20th. On the 21st embarked on 
Rose Hamilton and Izetto for Louisville, iind arrived there the next day, and 
went into camp on the 24th. On the 5th of October the rej^iment was ordered 
to Shelbyville; arrived there on the 6th, and on the 8th was ordered to Frank- 
fort. Arrived there on the 9th, and on the 11th was ordered to march for Crab 
Orchard, 105 miles distant. Arrived on the 16th, and on the20th, the regi- 
ment was ordered to Lebanon, and arrived within four miles of Lebanon on 
the 24th, and was immediately ordered to Bowling- Green, where it arrived 
October. 30. On the 1st of December Co. E moved six miles towards Nashville 
to guard a railroad bridge; built a small fort and called it Fort Loback, in 
honor of the Captain, and returned to Bowling Green on the 10th. On the 16th 
of November the regiment drew their first tents, having- been exposed to all the 
rain and snow from the time they started out, many being- sick from exposure. 
On the ISth the regiment was ordered to Russellville. On the 22d the regiment 
was armed with new Springfield rilies; before this timearma were worthless, 
which was the reason we were left in the rear of the main army. 

On the 24th the regiment was ordered to Clarksvlile, Tenn., where it ar- 
rived on the evening of the 25th, and went into camp for the winter. March 
4th Co. E was ordered to AUenville, to guard workmen while they built the 
railroad bridge across Elk Fork ci-eek, which the rebels had burned. Built a 
strong stockade at the place and returned to Clarksville, on the 22d, having 
completed our task On the 31st, the regiment moved to Fort Bruce, where we 
remainded until about Sepnember 24, 1863. April 10, Captain Loback, of Co. 
E, and 20 of his men were sent to Nashville on the steamer May Duke to guard 
170 convalescents. On the 14th, while returning on the Steamer Stephen De- 
catur, they were fired into by about 50 rebel cavalry at Harpeth Shoals, who 
wounded one man belonging to Co. I, who was returning to his company, with 
Captain Loback. We returned the fire and soon silenced them The regi- 
ment is in good condition up to this time, May 2, 1863. About Sept. 24, 1863, 
the regiment left Clarksville for Nashville, where it tookthetrain for Elk river 
bridge. Lieut. James Riddle, of Co. E, was killed on the 25th by falling off 
the cars. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF CO. K, loid O. V. I. 

THIS COMPANY was raised in Ashland coun^ty, in the month of August 
1862, by the energetic exertion of Capt. Sloan, Lieut. Beer and Jerome 
Potter. It was formed in less time than any other company that left 
Ashland county, and perhaps quicker than ever lelt the State of Ohio. We 
went into camp Mansfield on the 20th of August, 1862. About this time Cin- 
cinnati was threatened by a large force under Kirby Smith. In this extreme 
necessity our regiment was called into the field before we were fully supplied 
with the iiabilimentsj belonging to a soldier. We left Mansfield Sept. 4, and 
arrived at Cincinnati early next morning. We crossed the Ohio river, and 
sought our quarters in one of the large hotels in Covington. Ky. On the 6th 



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of Sept. we were rrmsteTed into service by Capt. Breslin. On the 7th we left 
Covington and marched about three miles and camped near Fort Mitchell. 
JS'ext morning- we moved a few miles, when we rested several hours. About 
noon we left, making- a circuitous march of ten or twelve miles and camped 
within sight of Covington, where we remained about two weeks, changing- our 
position nearly every day, but constantly in line of battle. 

We left Covington on the 20th and embarked for Louisville, at which place 
Gen. Bragg had intended to make his headquarters during the coming winter, 
but he was beautifully disappointed in his hollow scheme, and without consult- 
ing the strength of our great army, he concluded to go southward. 

The main army under Gen. Buell started in pursuit of the retreating foe, 
about the 1st of October. \\'e left on the 5th. and arrived at Crab Orchard 
on the 16th, having marched 121 miles. After resting four days, we received 
marching orders. We marched back as far as DanviDe, from thence tc P'^r- 
ryville and Lebanon. Here we were ordered to prepare for a six days' 
march. On the 24th we started and reached Bowling Green on the 30th, where 
we remained until Nov. 15th. The distance from Crab Orchard to Bowling 
Green via Danville and Perryville is 150 miles. Our men suffered greatly 
from the hard marching and exposure, having no tents, thus late in the fall, 
it was a natural consequence that sickness should visit our ranks. 

Co. K will ever be proud of the 102d. Whenever this regiment has been, 
among friend or foe, it has been spoken of as the best behaved regiment in 
"Dixie." Our venerable Chaplain has often eulogized the regiment as being 
the most moral and refined of any that has ever come under his notice. 



AN INCIDENT OF 1864 

URING the summer of 1864, while the 102d was patroling a part of the 
Tennessee rivet, with the right wing at Bellefonte, and the left at 
Doddsonville, Ala., it will be remembered that there were a large 
number of busewhackers on the opposite side of the river, and they and our 
boys often exchanged shots, and on one occasion they killed two of our men — 
Sergeants of Co. F. There were also a few Union m.en among them, who, to 
protect themselves," organized acompanyand called themselves "Heme Guards" 
I do not know who conceived the idea, but I think the Home Guards first 
broached the subject to our officers to unite our force with theirs, go across the 
river early some morning and exterminate the bushwhackers^ Our officers 
favored the proposition, and the left wing was communicated with at once, and 
they warmly seconded the proposal; then the time was set and iirsinediate 
preparations made to push forward to a victorious conclusion the work of ex- 
termin-Etion. In order to augment our force the Colonel sent word to the band 
to know how many would volunteer. After a moment's consideration, John 
Doll, the oldest man in the regiment, said, "I'll go if Em. G. Richards would 
go." the latter had secretly made up bis mind that he would not go, but after 
the remark of Uncle Johnny being acquiescee in by several others, he saw he 
was in for it, and as there was no way of getting out of it, he at once agreed 
to go, and we immediatel3' began to make preparations for our trip with the 



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alacrity that is characteristic of the American volunteer. Gar preparations 
consisted in getting one day's rations read 3% gathering up arms, amunition &c. 
The writer had an old rusty Enfield rifle that would shoot clear to the other 
side of no-place, and kick harder than a healthy Government mule. 

After our preparations had all been made and Jake McCauley had been 
informed a namber of times about "three men going forth in the dark," we 
lay down to sleep and were aroused at three oclock. We got up and after a 
hasty breakfast, assembled and marched to the river, about two miles distant. 
Here a fiat boat that probably held fifty or sixty men safely awaited us, and in 
three trips all landed on the other side of the river. The first thing we en- 
countered was an immense cornfield, on which at this time grew corn to a 
heighS only knowrn on rich river bottom lands, and which entirely obscured 
the mountains back of it. We passed through this cornfield and came to the 
foot of the mountain and saw a kind of road or path, then in disuse and cov- 
vered with short grass. Up this road we clambered and when about two-thirds 
of the way up, we came to where the road forked, and here our force halted. Here 
also the commander of that part of the expedition, the lamented and brave 
Capt. Aaron E. Zody, came back to me and said: "Richards, I want you to 
take fifteen men and guard this point. I wish to take these commissioned 
officers with me, and if you will, you can have your choice of men.' I assent- 
ed, and as there v/ere just fifteen men of the band along, besides myself, 
I selected them. "Now" says the Captain, "remember that the homeguards 
and the bushwhackers are dresised alike, but we have a countersign, which is 
'Tiger,' and if you see any stranger, demand the countersign, and if he an- 
swer 'Tiger' you may take him in, but if not, — well — you khow what we 
came for. Now place your men in any manner you may choose that will add 
to your safety. Keep perfectly qaiet, but remember we came over today to 
clean out these bushwhackers." With this parting injunction he exclaimed, 
"Forward, march!" to the main body and they resumed their assent up the 
mountain. 

Our small party all soon dropped down behind the small bushes which 
thickly covered the mountain at this point, and undertook to keep quiet. We 
soon found this to be an utter impossibility, as the mosquitos from all the 
surrounding neighborhood came to the "picnic," and brought their families 
along and multiplied until they became as numerous as the sands of the sea- 
shore, and many of them of a size that really alarmed us, and then they began 
the onslaught, and for awhile Yankee blood was at a high premium. Soon 
every handkerchief and everything else was called into requisition to cover the 
unprotected parts of our person, and an incessant slapping was resorted to, 
but even this did not have the desired effect. They would perch themselves on 
our cap rims and peer down into our faces with an insolent expression of 
countenance, then with a song of gladness which was suggestive of "blood I 
will have," alight on our cheek and go to work. From this, nothing would 
remove them except a slap, and all the blood that was spilled by the party 
that day was in that memorable conflict with those mosquitos. 

I will now try to follow the movements of the main party and tell of their 
adventures as I understand them; and right here I will say that if it is incor- 
rect, or anyt ing is omiited I would be glad if some participating comrade 
would take up his pen and tell the facts as they occurred: 

After leaving us, the main body went on up to the top of the mountain — 



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met the detachment of the left wing and the Home Guards^ and together they 
traversed the mountain, burning- a few buildings, killed one man by the name 
of Lindsay— the home guards said he was a bushwhacker — captured an- 
other, also captured three "critters," and got back to where we lay some- 
time in the afternoon. We fell into line and marched down the mountain and 
through the cornfield to the river bank, where we found our boat all ri"-ht and 
began to embark. As in the morning we had to make three different trips, 
and tiie writer of this stayed over until the last load. While the rest of 
the boys were crossing a number of us amused ourselves by firing off" our guns 
up and down the river to see how far they would carry, consequently a num- 
ber of us went on board ol the boat with empty guns. We afterwards wished 
we had loaded them before we started 

It will be remembered that at this time the trees and bushes on the moun- 
tain were in full foliage and this taken in connection with the large cornfield 
on the river bank made it an easy matter for a small body of men to follow us 
at a close distance and still be unseen. We never thought of this, and that 
is just what those rebels did, as will be seen. When the last ioad got out 
about forty yards from shore, a body of the enemy who had been stealthily 
following us slipped up to the river bank and unexpectedly poured two sharp 
volleys into us. After a moment's hush we saw what was the matter with us, 
and the predicament we were in, and then in a moment all was bustle and 
confusion. A number of the boys were hit, though none fatally. I had one 
shot go through the shoulder of my coat, another through the stock of my gun, 
and still another through my haversack, but they missed me. For that I am 
estremely thankful even to this day. Then we found that we werebeing fired up- 
on, and those of us that had empty guns saw the follj' of going on board with 
unloaded pieces. But we loaded as soon as possible and fired at them and 
they soon fell back, and then Capt. Zody ordered the men to the oars, and 
they took hold of them with a will, and the men already across began a fire 
at long range over our heads and many of the balls, either theirs or the rebels, 
came dropping around us in unwholesome proximity, and it really seemed at 
times that we were in as much danger from our own men as from the enemy. 
We got over, however, without any very serious mishap, other than the few 
slight wounds already referred to. 

As for the "critters" that the boys had captured, we had them swimming 
them by the side of the boat, holding them by the bridle reins, but when the 
firing began they were left to take care of themselves which they did by fol- 
lowing clear across the river. 

I must not forget that we had the one prisoner with us, and that he was 
wounded in the wrist, and that he cowered to the bottom of the boat in the 
most abject terror, nor would he rise untill he reached the other side. So end- 
ed the expedition. 

EM. G. RICHARDS 
Late Chief Masician and Band Leader 102d O. V. I. 



COLONEL GIVEN AND THE BUGS 

During the first several months of our service in the field. Col, Given was 



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very adverse to graj'backs. He expressed himself very decfdedlj' on that point, 
insisting that a soldier who would permit himself to become lousy, was negli- 
gent and necessarily filthy and should be punished severely. 

It was- not very long untii his personal experience changed his views in 
regard to the staying qulaities of a gray back. One day the Colonel com- 
plained of aa itching and a breaking out under his arms and ocher parts of 
his body. Some one suggested *'graybacks." "No sir, ' was his reply. "I 
keep myself clean, I do not thank any one for intimating that I am lousy." 

One nightwe discovered something unusual going on in the Colonel's tent, 
and discovered the Colonel disrobed and carefully examining his shirt. The 
alarm was given to some of Co. K boys, we surrounded the tent at a safe dis- 
tance. Occasionally we heard what resen bled the faint report of a cap ex- 
ploding and the Colonel make same emphatic expression. Then some one 
called out "how are you graybaek!" "Shap him again. Colonel!" "Grab a 
rootl" "If you can't catch him, shoot him!" and such like expressions, un- 
till the Colonel got so mad that he had a guard detailed to keep the bo3'& 
SLWBiy. He never condeinned us for ha.ving graybacks afterward. 



THE OLD BILLY GOAT 

Comrades, I don't want you to be alarmed if I get off a few anecdotes 
while with the regiment. The first one happened at Nashville. Some of our 
messmates and myself were out on picket on "Granny White pike, east of the 
city. Some time duringthe day a citizen came along in a carry-all, and he 
had a piece cf meat going to market, and David Craven, one of my 
mess- mates, stole that piece of meat out of his wagon, and v/e thought it was 
mutton, but to our astonishinent it proved to be an old goat, and as tough as 
trace chains. It perfumed the air for rods around while cooking, and the 
longer we cooked it, the tougher it got, and it smelled just like a goat's beard. 

PEACH EATING CONTEST 

While at Bellefonte, Rufus Swinehart and I got a pess from the Colonel to 
get some peaches; so we went, out one and a half miles. We got to aniorchard, 
I think owned by a man named Finley ; so my comrade and I climbed the fence 
and soon had our haversacks full and one of us took off his blouse and filled it 
full and then doubled it and took hold of the corners and carried them out in 
the woods under some shade trees; then sat down and were about ready to com- 
mence to eat, and then Swinehart said that he preferred to have his peaches 
pared. "Well," says I, "we have but one knife, sol v/ill pare for you, and 
when you get enough, you can pare for me." We agreed and I commenced to 
pare for him, but I could not pare half fast enough; he ate one occasionally 
unpared, and for my life I thought I could not get enough pared, but he final- 
ly got enough; so now it came my turn to eat and his to pare, he was like me, 
he could not pare fast enough for me, and I ate one occ?isionally unpared, I 
ate until I could almost reach them with my finger. So for curiosity, we 
counted the seeds, and in his pile I counted 104 that I had pared for him, and 



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an the pile lie had pared for me I counted 64, so "he ate 60 more than I did, and 
at that time I don't think there was much difference in our weight, althongh 
'he was much ^'ouger tii dii I. 

JACOB HOMER, 

Co. A, I02d O. V. L 



RICE SOUP GARNISHED WITH HAIR 

Upon an occatien in Januar}^ 1863, while in camp at Clarksville, I wa* 
makihg- rice soup for a mess of five or six comrades. The fire by which 1 was 
cooking was at one end of the row of company tents, while at the other 
end was Vince Menuez trimming hair for several of the boys. I did not notice 
at the time that the wind was blowing directly from the direction of the hair 
cutting, but after the mess was seated around and the soup dished out, all 
pitched in vi^ith a will. We had not eaten much of the soup before I noticed the 
boys bicking their teeth, spitting over their shoulders, as though the soup was 
too highly seasoned, &c. Mike wanted to know what the h — 1 was the matter 
with the soup. Another says, "what the d— 1 did you season this soup with?" 
Old "Easy" thought it must be oxtail soup, hair and all. Jim Fitch, who 
stuttered a good deal, wanted to know where I got that m - mule's ear that I 
p-p-ut in the s-s-oup. Old Vince says, by to nair, George, he make hair 
soup. The hair had been carried by the wind from where Vince was trim- 
ming the boys' hair and had dropped into the kettle unnoticed. 

G. W. DEITRICK, Co. H. 



A PIG TURNED INTO A BEAR 

July 4, 1864, the left wing of the regiment was at Doddsonville, Ala., Col, 
Elliott in commond. The boys thought to celebrate a little quietly, (no guns 
were allowed to be fired except at the rebs). The natives had allowed their 
pigs to feed about our camp, so that they (the pigs) were in good condi- 
tion. Bill Miller, myself and a couple others of the mess conceived the idea of 
having some fresh pork (roast pig). Not being allowed to shoot, we were Com- 
pelled to run down our game, catch and butcher it without attracting atten- 
tion. We spotted a young porker, chased it through brush and swamp for 
about 20 minutes, caught it, stuck it with a penknife, severed its head, skinned 
it, buried the head and hide and covered up our tracks as well as we could, 
but hardly had we this much accomplished when the owner of the porker was 
upon us. He intimated that we had one of his pigs. We replied that we had 
no pig, but had caught a young bear. He hastened to headquarters and made 
complaint. We were all ordered with our game into the presence of Col. El- 
liott. The native stated his grievance, charging us with killing one of his 
pigs. We denied the charge, and stuck to it that it was a young bear. The 
Colonel told the native that he did not believe his boys would steal pig*, but 



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if he, the native, could prove that bear a pig-, and" show by any marfis or 
other vi^ise that it vv^as his property, he, the Colonel, would punish the boys and 
make them pay for the same. The boys were too much for the native; they- 
proved to the entire satisfaction of the Colonel and the native's disg-ust that 
it was a bear. That evening the boys had a change of diet, and the Colonel 
found setting before him a delicious piece of skinned pig roasted to a turn, to- 
which he did ample justice. 



LIEUTENANT ROBERT SANDS 

L LIEUTENANT ROBERT SANDS, born in York county, Pa., Septem- 
ber 25, 18'-!4, came with his parents to VVooster, Wayne county, Ohio, in 
April, 1837, and v/^as a resident here until he volunteered in the service 
of the army, I think in Augusr, 1862. After he returned from the army, he 
tended mill at Orrville, Ohio, up to July 4. 1867, when he got married. He 
then moved to Decatur, 111 , and went into the jeweley business with Capt 
Rowe and his brother. After some time they failed and he broke up. Robert 
went to his sister and brothers at Silver Lake, Ind. From there he went ta 
Liberty Mills, Ind., and tended mill for several years. He next went about 
25 miles north of Ft. Wayne to a mill on the St. Joe river and was there 1& 
months, where the unfortunate accident happened May 10, 1879. He was 
caught in the gearing in the pit, and all mangled to pieces. Lived six hours 
and was conscious to the final dissolution. His brother took him to Silver 
Lake and buried him in that town. 

JOHN W. SANDS. 



C. H. CRAWFORD 

CH. CRAWFORD was born in Prairie Tp., Holmes county, Ohio, Feb, 
28, 1835. Married to Miss Sarah Neiswander Jan. 24, 1861. Enlisted 
July 29, 1862. Went to camp with the regiment and stayed with it 
and never missed a roll call or turn of duty, and never reporting at sick call. 
Was left wounded at Athens, Ala. Stayed at a citizen's house some twelve or 
13 days, and then was taken on hospital train to Nashville, arriving there the 
day of the Ohio State election. Was in hospital there until Dec. 1, 1864, and 
in that time had hospital gangrene three weeks. Was sent on hospital boat 
to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. Arrived there Dec. 6, 1864. Stayed there until 
April 9, 1865, From there to Cincinnati, getting there the evening of the 14th. 
The city was "painted red" over Lee's surrender. Was there at West End 
hospital only a few days. Was sent to Tripler hospital, Columbus, O. Was 
there six or seven days and then sent to Camp Dennison, Ohio. Was mustered 
out there June 8, 1865. Not having been paid since May or June 1864 until 
mustered out. Could not get discharged on disability by reason of being un- 



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'Cier treatrneTit, "but could s.'-ct a rnuster out and too'k it. Was mustered out with 
ca running sore on my liniij, and has continued so nearly all the time since 
coming home. 

Comrade Crawford was kill«d in an accident at at railroad crossing near 
Holmes vill-e a few years ago. Historian!. ) 



F. OSBUN 

At the time so tnany of our regiment was captured at Athens, I, with a 
aiumber of the regiment was in Athens as convalescent, left there when the reg^ 
iment, as you remember, was ordered from Bellfont up to Pulaski. When the 
regiment returned from Pulaski we were still left there until fit for duty, and 
being ordered to the regiment at Decatur, G6n. Forest dashed in and captured 
all of us. 

After the battle in which Col. Elliott and Capt. Zody were badly wound- 
■ed besides others of our regiment and the 18th Mich, myself and two others of 
Co. D were left at Athens and took care of our wounded. I was detailed or 
accounted for at the regiment, and took care of Capt, Zody from the day of the 
battle until taken from the general hospital in Nashville and forwarded to 
Louisville. I also receired letters from him just before he died, in Louisville. 
I was the only one of the regiment that was with him for a good while before 
he died. 

F. OSBUN, Co. D. 

Psvonia, Richland county, Ohio, 



WILLIAM CRAVEN 

I will give you a short histoy of myseif from memory. 1 started frorh Mans^ 
field with the regiment, and was with it until we reached Clarksville, Tenn. We 
had been there but a short time until I was taken sick and taken to the hospi- 
tal until the summer of 1863. I returned to the regiment to duty at once. Took 
a relapse and returned to the hospital, rem lining there under the care of Dr. 
Cooper,of the 83d III. The following Spring, being convalescent, I Was dettiled 
to assist in overseeing a. Government farm, started near Clarksville. David 
McCormick, of our regiment, also detailed at the same time. Capt. Brunt, of 
the82d 111., was in charge of the farm. I remained on the farm, havingcharge 
of the field hands. 

In the summer of 1864 I Went to the regiment at Decatur, while Hood was 
in front. Was there several days until I got severely scalded by one of my 
messmates tipping over a boiler of boiling coffee at breakfast one morning. 
When we evacuated Decatur, I with the rest that were not able to march were 
put aboard of a boat in charge of a doctor and ran up to Bridgeport, then by 
rail to Nashville. Was there during the fight, seeing the most of It, re- 
turning to the regiment again a at Decatur as soon as the road was repaired. 



I was one of the wood g-aards when , the teamster of Co. I or H was 

killed near me. 

The last two months of our service I was one of the permanent guards- 
stationed at the junction between Decatur and Huntsville. 

When vTe were discharged I returned to my home in Chester Tp,, Wayne- 
eounty, Ohio, remaining there until the follovyin^ spring, when I got married. 
and came west, 



WILLIAM CRAVEN. 



Plattsville, Wis., Dee. 19, 1886. 



JAMES P. REED, CO.A 

Our Co. A was the last to cross the pontoon bridge at Decatur, when we 
evacuated after Hood left there. We staj-ed in the fort until the rest of the 
regiment had crossed, then Capt. Castor said for us to count off in twos, and 
No. 2 to cross the bridge first. I was No. 2, but too many left, and I was just 
going out of the fort, when the Captain said to come back. I told him that I 
was No, 2. He said that did not make any difference, there were too many 
leaving. When I got to ths bridge there were only about eight or ten rods- 
of plank on the bridge. I had to cross the rest of the way on the stringers. 
The only man behind me was a man with an ax cutting the ropes that held the 
pontoon. Just as I got across the rope that held the bridge broke and let the 
bridge go. The name of the rebs that was in our front was Texas Kangers, 

JAMES P. REED. 

Kanopolis, Kan., Oct. 8, 1907 



THE GREAT STEAMBOAT DISASTER 



From the Cicinnati Commercial we learn that a large number of the pa- 
roled prisoners of the 102d O. V. I. were upon the ill-fated Sultana, and 
many of them members of the two companies, who went from this (Ashland) 
county We hope, however, the loss may not prove so disastrous as it now 
appears to be. Undoubtedly the boat was greatly overloaded. Hon. John 
Covode, of the War Committee, furnishes the following information relating to 
the Sultana disaster. He says the boat was overloaded, her regular capaci- 
ty being 376 passengers. Other good boats were at Vicksburg at the time, 
but the authorities would not let them have prisoners. Ke thinks there was 
criminality in the matter : 

There were about 2,000 paroled prisoners at Vicksburg when the Sultana 
left; 3,000 were left at Andersonville in consequence of the railroad being de- 
stroyed between Andersonville and Jackson. The3' go to Anapolis viathesea. 

The Sultana's agent writes that nearly 1,700 persons were lost by the 
disaster. No report gives the loss at less than 1,400 or 1,500. 

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county, who were known to be on board the ill-fated steamer. Those marked 
with a * are rescued, and we hope more of those who are not reported in hos- 
pital are saved, 

Co. B. Daniel Fisher, A. S. Fisher, Samuel Stacher, Serg-t. R. Richards, 
Sergt. O. Swineford, Sergt. *S. R. Potter, Corp. John McCrea, Corp. H. 
Krebbs, Adam Bahn, *H. Spafford, ^Abraham Whismore, ^Asa Webster, 
*Mat. Woods, *James \v'. Wells. *Jacob Hainer, *Geo. S. Schmutz. (Co. I.) 

Co. K. C. P. Ogden, *Sergt. W. N. Fast, *Sergt. M. H. Sprinkle, *Corp. 
W. A. Fast, *John Kauffman, John Castle, *Jacob Kisael, *John Hartman, 
Reuben Leidig, George Steinmetz, R. Burnside, Jerry Singer, Wesley Lee. 

Reported on board of Co.'s B and K, 29; reported saved, 12. 

The total number of the 102d regiment known to be on board the Sultana 
is 123, of which only 28 are reported rescued. 

It is one of the most terrible and heart-rending disasters that has ever oc- 
curred on the western waters. It is now attributed to a rebel torpedo, made 
in the shape of a lump of coal, which, on being thrown into the furnace, ex- 
ploded, bursting the boilers and throwing hundreds into the river. The sur- 
vivors of Co.'s B and K are' at the following hospitals in Memphis: 
Corp. W. A. Fast, Adams Hospital. Matt, Woods, Overton Hospital 
Silas R. Potter, " " A. Whismore 

Wesley Lee, Washington " M. H. Sprenkle, Soldiers Home. 

Sergt. W. N. Fast, Gayoso " H. Spafford 

G. S. Schmutz, " " Jacob Hamer, " " 

Asa Webster, '* " J-^hn Hartman, Gayoso Hospital. 

Let us hope that more of these brave and suffering men have been saved. 
It is one of the most terrible of the many disasters brought upon this country 
by this causless rebellion. — Ashland Times. 



OTTO BARDON 



Of Co. H, 102d, now of Wooster, O., says, "I was asleep in the engine room 
beside the hatchway with several others of my regimen], when the explosion 
oecurred. First came aloud 'crack,' then hot steam, smoke, pieces of brick- 
bats and chunks of coal thick and fast. I gasped for air. Next, fire broke 
out that lit up the whole river. I stood at this hatch hole to keep comrades 
from falling in, for the top was blown off. I stood here until the fire compell- 
ed me to leave. I helped several out if this hole. I saw Jonas Huntsberger 
and John Baney go to the wheelhouse, and I started in that direction. I tried 
to get a large plank, but this being so heavy, I left it, and got a small piece of 
weatlierpoard, and started to the wheel to jump in the river. Here a young 
man said, 'you jump first, I can't Swim,' I had on only my pants and shirt. 
I said, 'you must paddle your own canoe, I can't help you.' I jumped and 
stuck to my board. I went down so far that I let go of my board, and pad- 
dled to get on top. I strangled twice before I reached the top, then the young 
man caught me and strangled me twice. By this time I was nearly played 
out. Then I tried to reaih the water wheel, and climed on, and tore off all 
my clothes, intending to swim lone handed. Looking around I saw six men 
s^^itting on this wheel. I recognized Ignatius Saunders, of my regiment, by my 
side. I said, 'Saunders, here's a door under the wheel, let's get it out.' We 



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did so, but ft'und it had a glass paneT, and seeing another one, I said, 'let's 
let this go. hsre is a whole one.' The rest of the men on the wheel took that 
first door, Lind we started. We had not more than started when a man swam 
up and lay across the center of our door. I looked back and saw the wheel- 
hoase fall. It had been burned off. If we had staj-ed a minute longer it 
would have buried us in fire. I said to Saunders, ^let us go to the right, it i& 
nearer to the shore.' He said, 'no. there is a boat, I will paddle for it,' When 
we were in the center of the river, the steamer was out of sight. We niet 
three men clinging to a large trunk, who grasped our door for us to steer 
them in to the timber. We had not gone far till these m.en bore so hard 
on our door as to sink us under the water. I gave the trunk a kick, and lift- 
ed the door so as to bring it to the surface again, and said, 'now boys, if yots 
don't keep your weight off the door, then you must sreer your trunk yourselves. ' 
By this time I was so cold and numb I was in a sinking condition; but having 
presence of mind, I reached for my dior and got on it. I called aloud for God 
to to help us, I rubbed my arms and legs, and got the blood to flow again. 
Soon we were among the timber on the 'Hen and Chickens islands,* clingingito 
trees. But being too cold and numb to climb a tree, had the good luck to find 
two saplings crossed under the water. Put my foot in the fork and raised 
myself out of the water. I then soon got warm. I then swam to a larger tree 
and climed it. But I was not there very long till I got so cold that I fell off. 
I swam to the same tree and climed it, and called for God to help. One of 
the men that had clung to the trunk was so cold that he drowned with his 
arms around a tree. 

We were in these trees until about nine o'clock, buffalo flies and mosquitos 
eating us alive until rescued by a steamer sent in search of us from Memphis. 
The Captain of this steamer ordered hot coffee and whiskey to be given us. 
You bet we took it. The Christian Sanitary Committee furnished under clothes 
and on the third day Uncle Sam gave us a suit of clothes free. On the fourth 
day we took a steamer to Cairo, and sent to Camp Chase and discharged May 
21, 1865." 



PHILIP L. HORN 

Of Co, I. 102d O. V. I., having first given some account of preceding events, 
says: "I was lying with my bunkmate Joseph McKelvey, as he states else- 
where, on the left side of the boat on the cabin guard, at the foot of the stairs 
leading to the hurricane deck I was either blown through the stairway, or 
thrust out sideways into the river. But my first consciousness was of being in 
the air, and when I struck the water, I went down twice, when upon rising 
the second time, I encountered a fragment of the wreck, upon which I seized, 
being, I think, a portion of the cabin guard, which was probably 20 feet 
long by six or eight feet wide. Seven other comrades clunjf to the wreck, upon 
which we floated down the river, past the city of Memphis. On the way 
down in this life and death struggle, two of the men through sheer exhaustion 
relinquished their holds, and sinking back into the arms of the cruel river, 
were drowned. Don't know their names. In passing Memphis, in darkness 
almost tangible, we were on the opposite side of thechannel, Wesounded the 
very loudest possible alarm, which was heard by men on a gunboat lying 



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near, and were picked up by a skiff, with three men in it, who had a lantern. 
Tl ere were six of us in the boat, one ol them my bunkmates, Joseph McKelvey, 
I was the first to get into the boat. He recognized me, and said, 'for God's 
s ake, help me in.' I said, 'Joe, that you?' 'It is,' 'Are >ou hurt?' *Yes, 
scalded from head to foot.' I took him by the arm, and one of the gunboat 
men took hold of him also, and we helped him into the skiff, when the latter 
removed his coat and spread it around McKelvey to prevent him from taking 
-cold. "We then started up the river, in the direction of the Tennessee side, 
<we were then on the Arkansas side) and were fired upon by some negro sol- 
diers, who supposed we were confederates, who were guarding the river some 
•distance below Ft, Pickens^' He then describes their transfer to a steamer in 
its search for other victiii s of the explosion, their reception of clothes from 
ladies of the Sanitary Commission, care of at hospitals, the death of the un- 
iortun; t . McKelvey, the trip hoa e, ttc. He then adds: *'At Ihe time of the 
explosion McKelvey and I were lying together asleep, and it is a matter of won- 
der to me how I escaped, while he was so severely injured. When the catastro- 
phe occurred, my first impression was that I was experiencing another rail- 
road disaster. - - How high or far I was blown into the air, I do not know, 
but I remember that my feet struck the water, and that; with the exception of 
being slightly hurt on my left side, suffered but little from the shock. It was 
not a laughable matter then, even it be now, that during the night, when we 
were clinging with a death grip to that wreck, a mule, another floating waif 
of the disaster, swam along and dumped us all into the water, compelling us 
to exert our mightiest energies to regain our hold upon the wreck. The cur- 
rent, at times, would compel the men to relax their grip, and with the great- 
est difficulty thej' would recover their advaatage. " 



GEORGE ANDERSON 

Of Co. F, 102d O, V. I., now of Seville, O., having lain down and fallen asleep 
with two comrades under one blanket on the hurricane deck near the pilot 
house. "Was thrown ont of reach of everybody, saw nothing of my com. 
rades. After that, swam about in the river for | awhile and finally got a 
railing that was thrown from the boat, and stuck to that. Went down the 
river with Mr, Horn, of Wooster, and two others, two miles below Memphis," 
and was picked up as described by Mr, Horn. 



JOHN H. KOCHENDERFER 

Of Co. D, 102d O. V. I., now of Gallon, O., says: "I, with others of my regi- 
ment, was on the Sultana, Two of us took up our position outside the railing 
in front of the lett wheel on the cabin deck. When the explosion occurred, it 
threw the boiler out of its bed, ascending and tearing its way through both 
cabin and hurricane decks. Those immediately over the boiler were thrown 
in every direction, some of them being thrown directly up and falling into the 
fiery chasm belov/, while those upon either side, like myself, were thrown di- 
rectly out and away from the boat. The first I realized after the explosion, I 
found myself about 3(.0 yards away from the boat shrouded in total darkness 



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aud in what appeared to be an ocean of water. As I rose to the surface and 
got full control of myself, I tried to isolate myself from those aronnd me and 
then take a survey of the situation. For a few minutes total darkness prevailed j 
then a small fire kindled itself and no effort to extinguish it being made, in 
a short time it became a fierce conflagration, and the heat was intense, driv- 
ing the men back, those in the center and nearest to the fire crowding those 
on the outer edge into the river until all were oflF. The boat burned and sank,, 
when darkness again prevailed, but all this time, I was about 100 yards ahead 
floating down stream backwards and in a position to see the stern and one 
side of the) bOttt, where hundreds were dropping off into the river, the most of 
them to their death. After watching them for awhile, I became quite com- 
posed and fully realized my position, and in company with another poor fel- 
low, 1 started out to find shore but tailed. In our desperate effort, fighting 
the current, we became separated and I know not what became of him. 

Now I was alone, cold and tired. I began to look around for some sup- 
port, which I found in an empty candle box, This box I still had in my pos- 
session when picked up by a skiff eighteen miles below where the accident 
took place. I was brought back to Memphis, and first put on a steamboat, 
where I took the first whiskey I drank while in the service. I was taken to 
Gayoso Hospital, at which place I remained some three weeks, on account of 
an injur}' in the lumbar region of my spine by being thrown against a rope 
at the time of the explosion. 

I am a medical practitioner, residing at Gallon, Oho.'" 



RETURNING HOME 

The I02d regiment, Col. Given, arrived at Columbus, Ohio, on Monday last, 
and will be home to-day or to-morrow. We will publish the names of the re- 
turned soldiers from this county in our next issue. — ^Ashland Press, July 6. 



THE i02d O. V. I. RETURNING HOME 

Siuce our last issue (July 6,) the 102d O. V. I., who have served under the 
call of their country long and well, have been mustered out of the service and 
sent home. For nearly three years gallant old 102d, you have braved all the 
dangers of the field in active service. You have met your enemy and looked 
his death-dealing fire straight in the eye. The fatal bullet and diseaees of 
army life have drawn fearfully on your numbers. From a full regiment of 
over 1,040 men, your numbers have melted away until a roll of 438 tell off your 
names on mustering out. It was our lot while engaged in organizing an- 
other of Ohio, s gallant regiments to witness your departure from camp 
Mansfield, for the scenes of active warfare in 1862. We now bid you a most 
hearty welcom to your families, friends, and the quiet shades of a peaceful 
life. As. you have been among the most gallant soldiers of the war — never dis- 
honoring your native State, or the flag of your country — we know you will re- 
turn as readily to the walks of life, and be numbered with the good citizens 




WILLIAM H. McMONIGAL 



R pr^OR O P*"^^^*^' ^^- ^' ^^^^ ^- ^' ^-5 enlisted 
July 30, 1862; age 32; 3 years; promoted 
to Sergt. Major Aug. 18, 1862; to Lieutenant and Adjutant 
Sept. 8, 1862; Captain Co. D, April 8, 1865; mustered out 
with company June :{0, 1865. 



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of our land, as you promp*^! v responded to the call of duty. Thank God in 
your hearts for the return of peace, and ever remember your brave and g-al' 
lant comrades whose bones now moulder in the land of your heroic exploits* 
Remember that they will never again answer to roll-call until the Great White 
Throne shall be set up and Him who sits thereon and shall come to judge the 
quick and dead. They are lost on earth to their nearest and dearest kindred 
forever. Then with large hearts and open hands, let all extend an earnest 
charity to the needy widow and orphan of the honored dead. Then again, gah 
lant and brave old 102d, a hearty and earnest welcome to your families, fire- 
sides, homes and civil life. — Wayne County Democrat. 



RETURN OF CO. K, io2d REGIMENT 

The following are the names of the members of Co. B, 102d regiment, who 
returned on Saturday morning last. They are a fine, robust set of men, 
who have done good service for the country. The names of the mertibers 
of Co. K, who returned at the same time we have been unable to obtain. We 
trust the Captain, Lieutenant or Orderly Sergeant will furnish thhm. Long 
may they live to enjoy the blessings of liberty and good government, for which 
they have fought, and in their declining years, may they be as they are now» 
honored as the saviors of their country; 
W. A. Beer, Lieutenant Porter Craig 



H. Ames, Lieutenant 
John T. Roberts, Lieut. 
Jacob D. MeCauley 
Jacob Hildebrant 
John H. Bender 
James M. Wells 
H. A. Kellogg 
William Laugham 
H. C. Boffenmyer 
Joseph Biggs 
John Sulcer 
Henry Albright 
L. Anderson 
John W. Brubaker 
JohnW aggoner 



James W. Crone 
William Fasic 
Daniel Fisher, Sr. 
George Goudy 
John W. House 
Samuel Hamer 
Dilman Newman 
George F. Lundy 
James B. Hull 
Nathaniel Eddy 
Benj. F. Ridgley 
John Scott 
John Wycoff 
Charles W. Wingates 



Pollis D. Lacy 
Benj. F. Strock 
Alfred M. Sheets 
Wm. Frank Smith 
A. J. Mickle 
Joseph Lucas 
Samuel Kyle 
Theodore Kisef 
Johnson Winters 
E. Whissemore 
H. A. Bailey 
James McCrcady 
David Pryor 
Henry Swaisgood 
William Swaisgood 



WILLIAM HUGH McMONIGAL 

Was born Nov. 9, 1830; enlisted as a private July 30, 1862, at Wooster, O., in 
Co. F,102d O. V. I.; promoted to 1st Sergeant. July 30, 1862; Sergeant Major, 
August 18, 1862; 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant, September 8, 1862; Captain Co. 
D, on Brigade Staff, April 8, 1865; mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., dis- 
charged at Columbus, O. June SO, 1865 He was appointed Clerk in the P. 
O. of House of Representatives in May 1882. Engaged in private business at 
Athens, O. (Hotel) Cause of illness Liver Trouble; chronic Diarhoea since 
1863; died August 1, 1889, at Galopolis, O.; buried at Wooster, O. He was 
a member of Buruside Post No. 8, Washington, D. C. , a member of the Meth- 
odist Church and a Republican. 

AN INCIDENT OF HIS SERVICS 



The Adjutant went over from Covington to Cincinnati to purchase a horse 



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at one of the Government corals, and was riding a verj' spirited horse belonging' 
to Capt. Huston; in crossing the river on the pontoon bridge, he hadjto"passan 
army wagon, and by some means the horse happened to touch the wagon, and 
reared over backwared into the river. The Adjutant went down head first, 
but being a good swimmer, he dove from under the horse and struck out for 
shore, where he was assistad up the bank by some soldiers. The horse right- 
ed himself, also, and swam ashore, where he was caught. Neither horse nor 
rider was in the least the worse for their involuntary bath. 



ASHLAND, Holmes, Richland and Wayne counties held reunions short, 
ly after the return of the soldiers to their homes. Ashland held their 
reunion for thg 23d, 42d, 102d and 120th on August 17, 186-5. and Wayne 
for the 4th, 9th 16th and 41st on August 18, 1865. Ashland claims having the 
honor of entertaining the boys of the l''2d the first time in a reunion, after the 
V,'ar, on August 24, 1870. The following notice is taken from the Ashland 
Times: -'Lieut. Col. Haston, Pres. ; B. Beerbower, Sec. The officers for the 
year was elected as follows: Surgeon. Geo. Mitchell, Pres; and John Hud- 
son Sec. Aug. 13, 1871 was selected as the time and Mansfield the place for 
holding the next reunion. Over 100 of the regiment attend this reunion. * * 
and a fervent hope that all might live to join in our next reunion." 

This reunion was never held, and it remained for the Wooster companies 
to organize the next reunion at Odell's Lake, as the following program will 
attest: 



ANNUAL REUNION OF THE load REGIMEMENT 

At a meeting of surviving members of the 102d O. V. I., held at Wooster, 
O., it was resolved to hold a Reunion at Odell's Lake, Sept. 5 ani 6, 1883 — 
Sept. 6th, being the 21st anniversary of the Regiment's muster into the United 
States service at Covington, Kj-., (Sept. '6, 1862.) The 'following oflScers and 
committees on arrangements were then selected, and owing their efforts! the 
Reunion was a success. 

President, H W. Peters; Secretarj', L. R.Kramer, Treasurer, J. B. Horn. 

Committee on Arrangements — C. H. Hessler, G. F. Lundy, Perry Strow, 

Committee on Invitation — D. W. Bechtel, W. E. Rice, Schiller Fogleson, 
J. B. Horn. 

Committee on Reception — C. H. Hesler, D. W. Bechtel, G. F. Lundy, 
Schiller Fogleson. 

At 4 P. M. the comrades were marshalled in the Pavilion adjoining the 
Lake House, by the martial band in attendance, and Capt. .T. M Sloan called 
to the Chair. 

First in order was the signing of the roster, by each comrade present, 
name, residence and post office address, viz.: 



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FIELD AND STA.FP 

Suregon— G, W. Mitchell, Mansfield, O. 

Quartermaster — E. Hade, Mansfield, O. 

Sergeant Major — John F. Hudson, Millersburg, O. 

Commissary Sergeast — J. L. Hott, Mansfield O. 

Chief Musician — Em. G. Richards, Upper Sandusky, Oi, 

COMPANY OFFICERS AND PRIVATES 



COMPANY A 



W. H. Ross, Big Prairie, Ohio. 
Wm. Speelman, I^enton, Ohio. 
George Nouse, Plimpton, " 
Oliver Kilgore, East Greenville, O. 
Lieut. John C. Duncan, Killbuck, ' 
D. R. Liggett, Plimpton, O. 
James Emmons, Big Prairie, ' 

R. McClure. Mansfield, O. 
Jacob Homer, Nashville, O. 



John Longanecker, Wilmot, Ohio* 
Silas Speelman, Benton, Ohio 
Rufus Swinehart, Shreve, " 

C. H. Crav^ford, Holmesville, O, 
J. F. Uhl, Millersburg, 
Alexander Daniels, Killbuck, " 

D. B. Henderson, Millersburg, " 
Knox Kline Nashville, O. 



COMPANY B 



James Wells, Ashl md, O. 
B. F. Ridgley, Jeromeville; O. 
A. M. Sheets, Ashland, " 

George F. Lundy, Woostcr, " 
Henry Swaisgood, Red Haw, O. 
William Swaisgood, " 

S. R. Smith, Ashland, O. 

D. Fisher. " 

S. R. Potter, Jeromeville, O. 
J. F. Kiliver, Perrysville, " 
Madison Mercer, Ashland, " 

E. Smith, Red Haw, O. 



T, Kiser, Springville, O. 

John Sulcer, Ashland, " 

Lieut. H. Ames, " 

Joseph S. Biggs, " 

Lieut. W. A. Beer, Ashland, Ot 

Nathaniel Eddy, Jeromeville, " 

H. Stafford, Hayesville, O. 

Samuel Kylp, " 

John Scott, Jeromeville. " 

Joseph Lucas, Hayesville. O. 

H. C. Boffenmyer, Ashland, O. 



COMPANY C 



C. J. Madden, Urbana, O. 
William Eppley, Ontario, O. 
Jonas Baughman, Mansfield, O. 



Isaac Kisling, Mansfield, O. 
James Weagley, Mansfield, Q. 
James Cummins, " 



COMPANY D 



W. A. Ferree, Shiloh. O. 

J. H. Kochenderfer, Comly, O. 

F. J. Frame, Shiloh, " 

Newton Charles, West Windsor, O. 

Milton S, Charles, Ada, O. 

M. D. Ward, Mansfield. O. 

C. J. Muscroft, " 

COMPANY E 

Thomas W Geary, Shalersville, O. Edward McKinney, Belleville, O. 



H. O. Pittinger, West Windsor, O, 

James Marshall, Ontario. *' 

Henry Wharf, Mansfield, «• 

Napoleon Gates, " 

G. W. Miller, Mansfield, O. 

T. C. Baldwin " 



Capt. A. W. Loback, Belleville, 

D. W. Bechtle, Wooster, O. 
Emory Barnard, " 
C. H. Hesler. ,• 

G. H. Bechtel, Sterling, O. 
Neal Patterson, Congress, O. 
Isaac J. Bechtel, Canaan, " 
J. F. Hughes. Mattoon, 111. 
Adam Chubb, Newville, Ind. 
William Lattamer, Hayesville, 



Levi Everts, 

COMPANY F 

Jacob Weiker, Shreve, O. 
R. V. Bowers, '• 
William Weiker, " 
Obed Smetaer, " 
John S. Markel, Wooster, O. 
Orlando Merkle, Nakomis, 111. 
James Chubb, Perrysville, O. 
D. J. Branstetter, Wooster, '* 
O. G. W. Riffle, Big Prairie, " 



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Lieut. S. B. Johnson, Waterloo, Ind. Alfred Garrett, Shreve, G. 

COMPANY G 



Capt. A. Waits, Millersburg, O. 
John F. Casey, Clarka, O, 
E. Booth, Nashville, O. 
B. T. Homer, Plimpton, O. 
H. H. Wachtell. Nashville, O. 
J. A. Lewis, Berlin, O. 
H. H. Bell, Millersburg,0. 
David Allison. Millersburg, O. 



R. I. Flack, Holmesville, O. 
David S. Williams, Millersburg. O. 
Martin Williams, Millersburg, O. 
I. H. Hague, Shreve, O. 
Charles Ports, Millbrook, O. 
Lewis Powelson, Black Creek, O. 
J. P. Marietta, Loudonville, O. 



COMPANY H 



G. W. Deitrick, Defiance, O. 
Florien Giauque, Cincinnati, O. 
D. J. Howenstine, Canal Fulton, O 
William S. Boon, Montipelier, O. 
Schiller Fogleson, Marion, O. 

G. S. Kilgore, Canal Fulton, O. ^..^ ^...^^... 

James Hutchinson, Fredericksburg, O. Robert Boling, Perrysville, O. 
Henry Porter, " Thomas O'Brien, Wooster, O 

Thomas McAnany. Marion, O. Edward S. Keyser, " 

COMPANY I 



Thomas S. Hamilton, Wooster, O. 

J. A. Clinedinst, " 

P. H. McAnany, Allegheny, Pa. 

J. C. Hall, Wooster, O. 

A. H. Dice Wooster, O. 

Otto Bardon. 



W. C. Vanmetftr, Wooster, O. 
W. H. Robinson, " 

John B. Horn, 
H. W. Peters, 
Perry Strow, " 

C. C. Gasche, " 

Jacob, Seacrist, '* 

Constant Markel, *' 

Levi Rutter, " 

John A. Moore, " 

Samuel Moore, West Salem, O. 
W. E. Rice, Wooster, O. 
Solomon Kissel, Ashland, O. 
Augustus Markle, Wooster, O. 



H. M. Foltz, Kent, O. 
A. E. Foltz, Akron, O. 
Cranmer Cosier, Massillon, O. 
Yost S. Baker, Smitbville, O 
David Derr, Smithville, O. 
G. W. Galloway, Pleasant Home, O. 
C. D. Reamer, Oberlin, O. 
H. G. Brown, Corf ress, O. 
John W. Hart, Oberlin, O. 
J. M. Foltz, Akron, O. 
F. M. Hammond, Lattisburg. O. 
Philip Horn, Wooster, O. 
J. D. McAfee, Wooster, O. 



COMPANY K 



Capt. J. M. Sloan, Chase City. Va. 
James Stofer, Ashland, O. 
Elias Cyle, Ashland, O. 
Hugh Murray, Nova, O. 
Jasper N. Shaver, Nova, O. 
Benj. Ross, Rochester, O. 



John Wolf, Rochester, O. 
Lieut. George C. McConnell, Sullivsn O 
J. H. McKee, Mansfield, O. 
B. P. Yohn, Mansfield, O, 
Jacob Kissell, Ashland, O. 



The second Reunion of the 102d was held at Odell's Lake Aug. l7, 
and 18, 18S4. This was more largely attended than the first and was very 
interesting. 

The next Reunion of the 102d was held at Odell's Lake Aug. 19, and 20, 
1885. L. R. Kramer, President and John F. Hudson, Secretary. 

The fourth Reunion was herd at Odell's lake Aug. 18, and 19, 1886, Ow- 
ing to poor hotel Accommodations, the Association voted to hold their next 
Reunion at Ashland, O. 

The Reunion at Ashland Aug. 17, and 18, 1887, was well attended and 
enthusiastic. The subject of a Regimental History was brought up and Flo- 
rien Giauque, the Historien, reported the project impossible, after much labor, 
research and correspondence. 



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The next Reunion of the 102d Regimsnt was held at Orrville, O., on Aug. 
21, and 22, 1888. The comrades were quite well entertained by the patriotic 
ladies of Orrville giving- us a fine dinner in the yard of the Presbyterian 
cnurch. The association voted to return next year. 

In 1889 the 102d reuned at Orrville on August 22d a id 23d. 

The Association met in annual session at Bellvile, O., August 21, and 22. 
1890. Capt. A. 'W. Loback, President, and B. F. Ridgley, Secretary. 

Reunion of the 102d was held at Orrville August 18, and 19, 1891. A 
most interesting meeting of the Asstciation was held. They decided to go to 
Gallon to see George Lundj'. 

The Reunion lor 102d was held in Galion August 17, and 18, 1S92. In the 
absence of the president, G. S. Schmutz acted as such, and B. F. Ridgly, 
Secretary. Ti e Association voted to hold the next reunion at Wooster, and 
E. F. Taggart was chosen president and B, F. Ridgley Secretary. 

Reunion of 102d Regiment was herd in Wooster August 21, and 22, 1893. 

In 1894 the 102d held their annual reunion at Mansfield, O., on Augsut 1.5, 
and 16. 

August 15, and 16, 1895 the 102d went to Akron, O., to hold their annual 
reunion. 

In 1896 the 102d held their annual reunion at 'Vv'ooster, O. 

The annual reunion of the l02d regimest was held at Orrville, O., Au. 
gust 19, and 20, 1897. 

The annual reunion of the 102d O. V. I., was held at Ashland, O., Au- 
gust 18, and 19, 18'.'8. At this reunion arrangements were made to hold the 
meetings in the four counties in which the companies were raised, beginning 
at Ashland 1898; Mansfield, 1899; Wooster, 1900; Millersburg, 1901, and again 
at Ashland in 19U2. and rotating each year as above. The officers are chosen 
by the comrades of the county in which the reunion is to be held. 



ANECDOTES OF THE SERVICE 

One night at Mansfield I was lying with my head to that of a comrade and 
peacefully sleeping on the "soft side" of the bunk, when I was awakeded by 
the one at my head puling my hair. I said, "what.s the matter?" He said, 
"you pulled my hair." If I did, I did it in my sleep," said I, The comrade 
had very long hair that hung down nearly to his shoulders, in which he took 
great pride. Somehow his long hair got over the ridgeboard between the two 
bunks, and suppose it got tangled with mine; he thought I was pulling his hair. 

Going down the Ohio River, when the boat stuck on the bar, we were 
moved to the barge; I thought to return to get my canteen. While searching 
for it, Lieut. Palmer came up and yanked me away. I had got turned round 
and was among Co. H'a baggage. 

At Tullahoma one evening on dress parade Capt. Bradley rede up to the 
Colonel to give him some information, and had to dismount, and in remount- 
ing missed his step and unceremoniously sat down on the ground. The shout 
that went up from the boys in line almost re-echoed from the Cumberland Mts. 

While at Clarksville, some of us on a hot Sunday went over to Independ- 
ence to attend a negro meeting. When the "bredren and sistern" got well 



warETEiS apji to iSe aerrice a sfrong ada^r arose which drove us out into tSe" 
fresh Bir> ~Ws 3id mat attead any more meetings in hot weather. 

Is itJte sasJj sprisg of IS64,. at Nasfiville tae Boja at the reserve pest on: 
Sns^aS fs^re^ IstSiS s g-oed ^eal 0i fan. We got a good sized cannon ball and put" 
,au» c3fi l^J ^yrsT it assd place;? it on t&e sidewalk in front of the quarters. Some 
i-wsseM £»33ff alaag- and" give tlie hal? a lick and "stump his toe." One 
^ ysitssig- ss'SiiDw. Srs3stS In hfa spriag suit and light shoes and tried tO' 
JtfcSr Hhe ^'^ ^'i-^m^'" est of tie hat and sprawled fall length on the pavement. 
He sresit a>Jg" limj/ls-^' zmld th& langJiter of the guarda. We "loaded" ap for 
i&eraesEfi aase- "WSes iSs refief casas tie next morning, we had it fixed for them. 
Gmc ad'Cc-Slcj®, saaieig Kipliager, said, '^watclime kick thathat. " He tried 
IwB "best., Ij^i Tsnej liadgsd tas hat. €), How we laughed*: The new guard' 
^Dsk U* Mas} sa J Ipa^ssl' jt ap far tSeis own amusement. 

^23Sis-Llff ^aflraa^tracS train ®ar caznp at Nashville was a lot of commis- 
ssa^st^rsm, g:BSiSt£ 'by scsie ealored troops. The 3d Tenn. Cav. would come- 
!9ser t3> ,«1s3l JsTa-gff, a3i5 eoasiieraible trouble was caused by it. One night 
StniBg iraalfar^ at t5e EBaimlssary stores and the long roll was beat and in* 
ati3«e aEsssdys tie lf25f was oa lis JoaBla q-aie:t' to qaeell the riot-. Nothing- 

!Hk3« waHS laS ElJ^ye dranfenasss in the 102d"from the time we left Mans- 
ffigelS bqeHSS wereaalc^ Scaie Procaring tHe whiskey was rather difficult and' 
w^l soHsi^erable risK of the guard house. A little partj- gath- 
HBKsislTfsSJs SB? affsTBGOn and got a quart of whiskey from an old Irisb> 
s^, TsMi^i W33 i'mm'Jt Ijetweeu tSesn, and then started for camp, passing 
,l3nEw«rj-©as?^ waj aad' sfappei; toget same Beer, and the mixture was a- 
Isi 33>£ 3f ISem at least. 3?eturning to camp in the evening, 
latiiSe SaSfer'3 33.e of fiiem stumbled up against two barrels one on- 
:5:jr^ 3 |?afsr s^ ss-slssva the top, and the crash threw the scales down 
.STifl br Tls Satler -wanted pay for them, but we said his profits- 

■«!®i5li3 r z ^2jr§oir JSeHi. This was iSieonlj iimz this crowd got oa the- 

^*- "JE'j-gtSa'ciiJcaiTnp-a funny incident c-ccurred' itr mess No. 4. 

A'fee Sv ■ 7.3J J*»S2 SiH werse bakiag "Slap-jackst " over afire in the- 

xTaiir^rv l '■ tISs teaL. The tent, was not high enough to permit 

istttiiili' - Ba^got aaise pile of slap-jacka on a plai:ter, when a 

quuT-! . ii-j^sfis fMm^. ©omijag to blows they arose from their 

•jcroucliiij i=..;. .-v.-i-, iziiii Sli?sJ tleix asads tfiTough tHe tsnt, and in: the melee- 
.A3>.e gnl 'Ms. f .ra:? ia; fAe alap-jacls and made a pretty mess ot them. John did 
iSHft .i^re dfcrjr jr ;,3 -^33 son?,, and" same of us looking could not see how his No. ll- 
tfeot rwiiSi'i .-isjijs- la.- My, liow 4Se Dutch did fl'j when the quarr«l began!. 

^oiQsaHsr SissrSEHjf 3371 d 1^8 Box WHS iirbad" GontJitlon. The magazine box, 
•Boadexff t£feE.S33:s aga:;^,. so wMea a nawone earn® to the company I made re- 
c-QTiejBt lr> t^a^-iSajtaia fa? rf. Bat Se would not give it to me, and gave it to some- 
iiQbt jcej^, "sBiltQ JTaT ^al li^lz duty, and whose boa was in good condition. I' 
riaa&c Ts^xr^sS f^rM^y ana tara miue m as Condienmed. Tha Captain would not 
'■j&jeB Sollait. Tlia, ItSa^lSt, -^vas showing considerable partiality. But 
"^Is T« sjs TsiiSSfeij- ii5>... Tbe Captain was supreme. Had I gone to the Colc- 
iiel, a* 1 ilfS 32isa S^faisK wiiil mj gr-ievance, Se wmild ha-?e done me justice;- 



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M McGw3mn,s Ferry, on the Tennessee liivet, fee soya pst ottt a taut 
line to catch some fish. One morning- thej- took up;th.e JiHc 5^-i hid araonster 
fccatfish that weighed 70 .pounds. I tookls-aHilie hQ3.& s£3d. it ssaawie a. me^ few 
four, all we could eat, 

We have before us a f onrnai wrltteE by ©rSei'Jy Sergesat Sas. W. Kag-ey, 
•ef Co. K. He gives a description ef each memper si tfee csaip£.ffiy, feafe jit ia.toa 
long to print here; besides -some ef.iiis siot -©S a charajctsr lssr-isssh1& In t6e 
■comrades. We -make the -following extiSLCto:; 

We quote from Kagey's Diary ef 'Co. K, ee imcidesit «fEafe is tatesreating-. 
•^'While we were at L,oui-svilIe we were 'theE «iippliM wllfe a. jsaar aasartinent 
-of guns. Our Colonel sent 'th«is .all for 're5)air-s £e& .tis.(£s <^e TE-ere witlismfe 
guns for several days. The can^p giiarfl, instead ef asiiKg gi£S«, fesk ciafes and 
-stones. One night Amoa Sprinkle was staKdirig tey^ke ^ke th-Zt Ecdi froas 
.Louisville tc Frankfort. He had erders -te let eg eae pass wita.aE££ke cauater- 
■sign. He had no arms, but a small .pietel, wliichfce 'k.t.pi: cmi&esls^andez 6ig 
■clothing, as it wa-s , against orders fer .prdv^e© .t©cas:rj.aEEa££ S^sr^asms^. Efe 
gathered around hia; a small -pile cf -stecea ^©r */i£ defss^ee- BaEm^ feen%fct 
-a regiment of infantry .passed his 'post; •whe:& ffihsj xanie -wEi^iCT. fiiaMEsg dia^- 
tance, he iialted them. Th« Gelenel did Eot pay acy sistesiSsssiteMsH^ Se was 
•halted again, at which time Amos &wore if .he -^id eai liSj± fee sg^asaM feksw M» 
brains out. The Colouel dismounted aad-steppsd .it© te Assi«2s, wrfcs &adi &^ 
-pistol in one hand and a etOEC in fehe other, and gave -fcitsa S&e CfEscnJrersiffM. 
.No doubt, if the Colonel had not stopped, Amos woalg fea^e g.r»si Siis. Lsat ^M 
•and throvrei his last stone before -he would fca^Ts perciit4eS Ijasi to j>,sss., "* 

SYNOPSIS OF CO.K— Tliere3.Te 64 tiiimarri«d aress. ie: Sse cKKss^any— 
and 37 married men . 

Fifteen men have "been disdharged fer ■Si-safciR-ty. T«s;. &is&; ssoe was 
transferred ; two deserted,; one was -shot tiiroqgfe ^the .fcsee &y aspfew^afeeaa. 

Tom Eonley had a fist fiigfaS. 

Jake Ely and Charles Mefcteriiaa «. £^ figfet, •sKr'kicfe xeealis^ is. fasRa- of 
•Sly, and to the benefit cf Motter. 

Chandler Pov^-'er stele ecice ncoaey •frern a tegrc, .£.ififi wEaaLtfieSi waBfeam 
^the fort at Clarksville for 20 days. The.«niy etraEg«£fei^ af MSu.* aiEaiy is 
-that lie is the sen of aa Aboiishiamet. 

CHRISTIANITY IS THE ^EG3I£EHT:. 

One would naturasly thiiik thai .among a (fecnisasia aaasaE tsss^ettagt aBE: 
'Classes of people 'from sixteen toiorty-fivey^ears ©f £gs£,thiosvs wssuM bca.naaA 
=many faithful <!Jhristiana, andao floubt, ?£here were msay 5 
in the 102d Regiment; but army lifa-on fhe^inaTiSL, "in< 
^eld, doing the dutj' assigned to t-hera, -werie-limea -^asfc ineA-a 
At some *'fell from grace" it was sot more thas-cc 

But with all thisthere was considerable .reiigi3i;^ sesasthtsusA. ^<t oacte 
■from Kagey's Diary writing -of Watson H. Acd«rsen. He aajiss *'SPkts>»» 
^sustains a pure Christia ncharactar. His epiritHal 
;soul and mind; he is regular in his .daily -devotioE; .fcis Sibte is Ub 
friend, and his constant text bosk, He laboirB -earnestly mSkiStms i 
ithe way of life and has been the nseanfi of turning a -few SK^amSbeSr ^rnwg te 
-lead a better life. When the regiment was org-auizedifihiescwaBfflcaaypBBfiaB- 
ors of religion througout .thecomjxamea. In «v£ry coBQyaigr Sfaeoe^ wsbb ^wim a 




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efroupor two holding their evening worship. Xow I kn(3vv of none but Wat- 
son's mess. " 

We wish to bear witness to others. Joe Gill, Co. I, Billy and Henry 
Swaisg-ood, Co. B, stack close to their Master, and better soldiers never 
shouldered a gun. There were others, but these I know never during- the 
entire service played a game of cards, nor uttered an oath, and their whole 
army life was exemplary in every Vv'ay. I well remember that at Nashville 
in company B or K there was held regular weekly prayer meetings, and the 
jeers and scoffs of comrades would not deter them from their known duty. 

THE FIFER BOY 

Every comrade remembers our little Fifer Boy. We quote from Sergt. 
Kagey's description of him: 

"Chandler Power is a m.ere boy; quite too young for the army, but he en- 
listed as a fifer. He is an accomplished fifer. Chandler is wild and'reckless, 
shrewd and very intelligent. He has done his share of double duty for mis- 
conduct. He has marched with the regiment to the astonishment of all; often 
he would carry a musket for those who were nearly given out. He never 
dreams of home; he loves frolic and fun, and often forgets his duty in his boy- 
ish pranks. " 

GEORGE B. CARNEY 

Here is Kagey's funny description of George B. Carney, in part: 
"George B. Carney is a perfect specimen of the 'Down East Yankee.,' 
He was generally in good humor, always full of talk. When he was march- 
ing under the unmerciful weight of a knapsack, and almost ready to 'sway' 
he might have been heard with his 'by-jingos, ' 'darn my buttons,' 'well, I'll 
becornfed,' 'by Julius C^sar,' and' Sam hill,' etc. He was always willing to 
do his share, and swore he would do it or die." 

Kagey says that John Doll was the first to enlist in Co. K. He was 54 
years old, and a member of the "Brass Band." 

KAGEY'S DESCRIPTION OF REUBEN LEIDIG 

"Reuben Leidig is a fat, plump little Dutchman, and always wears .? 
smiling countenance. He talks and laughs; whenever he does either, he is 
snre to do both. If he would talk while intending to talk, and reserve his laugh- 
ing until laughing comes in play, it would be far more graceful. But he mix 
es the two and spoils both." 

KAGEY'S DESCRIPTION OF JOHN D. MYERS 

•'John D. Myers is certainly one of the most Quixotic and fun-making 
chaps in the companj'. I never saw his equal in grimacing and making odd 
gestures and expressions, his very look would excite laughter. His walk was 
peculiar and perhaps ridiculous. He is full of wit, and always inventing 
peculiar expressions. He alone could keep the company in lively spirits un- 
der the most precarious circumstances. On the march John would always 
obssrve some good subject ior sport, or have something to delineate that the 
rest would hardly ever think of hardships. He had a peculiar style of boast- 



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ing of his unparalleled bravery. He said, 'he had as brave a heart as ever 
man had; that he was patriotic he would vindicate whenever the fiery trial 
would present itself; he knew what it was to be brave, and that it was a gift 
that few men could boast of; that his heart gave him a conscious assurance 
of his bravery, and his hands were his most willing tools, but there were 
other things he feared would disappoint him in the hour of trial: his legs were 
so devilish cowardly that he feared they would run sff with him; otherwise he 
was sure he was beave. ' 

"John was asked one day tO'tell the best thing he ever did, to which he re- 
plied, 'always told the truth to my father and to my teachers.' Then the 
question was put, what the worst thing he ever did. John hung his head and 
no doubt pondered over his bad deeds, and finally said that the worst thing 
he is guilty of was to enlist in the arm} . 

"He was asked what he would cling to if he was to be deprived of all 
things except one, and to show his great love for one particular thing would 
be, he said, without a moment's hesitation, 'that beloved his father and moth- 
er, his brothers were near to him, and his sisters were dear dear to him, and 
that other girl was altogether lovely, yet he would let all slide and cling to 
his 'Democratic Principles.' " 

Kagey says, "John Romine at 16 enlisted for fun. He really enjoys it as 
such, but he would not get out of his bunk after night to save his country. 
Ha will go when he must, and not otherwise. He is alwayatjhe last at roll call 
or at any time when the company is to be formed. He it witty and hard to 
head. He fears not his officers, and often dares to speak disrespectful to them, 
and sometimes curses them in their presence. He says, 'he naturally hates a 
Corpora), has some respect for Sergeants, and don't care ad — n for shoulder 
straps.' " 

A BRAVE MAN 

D. W. Kagey gives an account of Co. K under fire. He says, "on one ac- 
casion a number of men was detailed to guard a boat load of provisions up 
the river. Joseph Wolf was one among the number. He and several of his com- 
rades were sitting above engaged in merry conversation, when a terrible fire 
from the thicket of the bank thunderstruck the whole squad, so that they ran 
for safety below, excepting Joe, who up with his gun and blazed away. 
Again he loaded and fired without orders from his officers. He was compli- 
mented as a brave man. 



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